Will Brown
Will Brown
psychology society progress
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
vulnerable vulnerability
To be is to be vulnerable.
currency neurotic
All currency is neurotic currency.
religious money heirs
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
fashion humanity survival
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.
mad way resisting
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
essence common-sense long
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
reality insane favors
The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
history stage commemoration
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
dynamics enjoyment capitalism
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
love love-is poet
To love is to transform; to be a poet.
pay-the-price impossible-things deeds
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
substance body self-destruction
The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
Meaning is not in things but in between them.