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Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself…
R. D. Laing talked about a similar thing in his 'The Divided Self' but I can't find the exact quote
One who mourns is entirely with the beloved Other. The late-modern ego devotes the majority of libidinal energy to itself. The remaining libido is distributed and scattered among continually multiplying contacts and fleeting relationships. It proves quite easy to withdraw the weakened libido from the Other and to use it on new objects.
In the social networks [of the late-modern individual], the function of “friends” is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity.
The [modern individual] competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results.
Have you ever noticed that you can only sleep really well when you're tired (but not very tired)?
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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" —which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. — Dune, by Frank Herbert
Spannungsbogen (n.) comes from German, and it means something like "bow of suspence," like a tense bow before it shoots the arrow.
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— Before Midnight
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Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being-in-the-world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter…
قريتله The Agony of Eros و The Burnout Society وثنينهن جانن يخبلن، وبديت ب psychopolitics همين يبدو جيد.
His criticisms cut to the core
His criticisms cut to the core
"لقد وهبتني أعظم سعادةٍ ممكنة. لقد كنتَ بكل الطرق، كلّ ما يمكن لشخص واحد أن يكونه. لا أظن أنه من المعقول لاثنين أن يصبحا أكثر سعادة منّا... ما أريد أن أخبرك به هو أنني مدينة لك بكل السعادة التي عشتها في حياتي. لقد كنت صبورًا معي وطيّبًا بشكل لا يعقل. أريد أن أخبرك -والجميع يعلم هذا- لو كان لرجلٍ أن ينجح في إنقاذي فستكون أنت هذا الرجل. فقدتُ كلّ شيء يا ليونارد، عدا إيماني بك وبقلبك. لا أستطيع الاستمرار في إفساد حياتك. هذا يكفي. لا يمكن لشخصين أن يكونا أكثر سعادة مما كنّا عليه".
- رسالة انتحار فرجينيا وولف إلى زوجها
*فرجينيا كاتبة وشاعرة انگليزية(1882-1941)، أصيبت بالإضطراب الوجداني ثنائي القطب (bipolar) والذي لم يكن الطب قد اكتشف علاجًا له آنذاك.
أنهت حياتها بملئ معطفها بالحجارة وإغراق نفسها في نهر أوز.
كُتب على شاهد قبرها آخر جملة كتبتها في آخر رواية لها (الأمواج): "سأقذف نفسي أمامكَ، غير مقهورة أيها الموت، ولن أستسلم".
- رسالة انتحار فرجينيا وولف إلى زوجها
*فرجينيا كاتبة وشاعرة انگليزية(1882-1941)، أصيبت بالإضطراب الوجداني ثنائي القطب (bipolar) والذي لم يكن الطب قد اكتشف علاجًا له آنذاك.
أنهت حياتها بملئ معطفها بالحجارة وإغراق نفسها في نهر أوز.
كُتب على شاهد قبرها آخر جملة كتبتها في آخر رواية لها (الأمواج): "سأقذف نفسي أمامكَ، غير مقهورة أيها الموت، ولن أستسلم".
Freedom will prove to have been merely an interlude. Freedom is felt when passing from one way of living to another – until this too turns out to be a form of coercion. Then, liberation gives way to renewed subjugation.
Today, we do not deem ourselves subjugated subjects, but rather projects: always refashioning and reinventing ourselves. A sense of freedom attends passing from the state of subject to that of project. All the same, this projection amounts to a form of compulsion and constraint
She said, “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind,” Paul quoted.
She replied “But what should've been said is: Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.”
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind,” Paul quoted.
She replied “But what should've been said is: Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.”