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Madness and Modernism:
Chapter 2 Perspective Spirit

:: WORK

Patient: Yes, we all have perspectives, everyone does, and then you have to ask the perspective spirit to help you find a home you can live in, if you don’t have one, and so…
Interviewer: Where is this perspective spirit?
Patient: Yes, where is it? As a rule one has four perspectives, one in the head and one in each wrist, yes.
Interviewer: And what happened to the fourth?
Patient: One in the head… no, I don’t really know. Or two in the head… There is at any rate, I don’t really remember. But I, I don’t rightly know it’s arranged. I don’t know how it’s arranged.

Nietzsche’s own perspectivism: “unbelief as an instinct,” “absolute skepticism toward all inherited concepts” and toward “anthropomorphic error” whereby the mind indentifies its own constructs with reality itself. … The more eyes, the more modes of seeing and knowing, the better. But these multiple are only good if they incite action… and overabundance of perspectives to the point of paralysis is stupid.

   heads
   DREAMS
IN THE WAITING ROOM
SESSION (birth)
SESSION (breakfast)
RORSCHACH BLOTS
SESSION (oedipus1)
SESSION (oedipus2)
NOTEBOOKS
TAT
SESSION (art & nature)
 
GLOSSOLALIA
TSE
SHOCK THERAPY
WAITING ROOM 2
 
 FAILURES & FALSE STARTS
      Notes 12/02/03
  Psychoanalyst Notes
  Land of Psychoanalysis
SESSION (femininity)
 
NOTES
  MAM: Schizophrenic Thought
  MAM: Perspective Spirit
  MAM: Disturbances in Distance
  MAM: Language of Inwardness
   
 
 
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