[lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:09:06 -0400
(E.g., "I am a great
painter who will start painting as soon as I get
time off from my Wal-Mart clerk job.")
HEY!
Now, Eric, YOU are crossing a line!
______
The operative words there were "great" and "will
start painting." Writers are writing and painters
are painting, whatever else they are doing to make
ends meet.
But the notion of someone who hasn't started
painting, yet regards herself or himself as a
"great" painter...is neurotic. In Horney terms,
it's a clash between the real self (the not
painting person) and the ideal self (a great
painter who must work at Wal-Mart INSTEAD of
painting--note the false dichotomy).
I agree that dreams are essential, but sick dreams
are a form of lying to oneself. In the example
above, note the responsibility for not painting
has shifted from the person to Wal-Mart.
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