Category: Study Notes
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Study Notes: Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger’s 1953 Trakl Interpretation I. FAILURE AS METHOD The question of failure inhabits Land’s text from its opening lines. What would it mean for Heidegger to “succeed” in his interpretation of Trakl? Such success would presuppose a model of reading as mastery—the philosopher’s dominion over the poem, its reduction…
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Study Notes: Deleuze and Guattari’s “1914: One or Several Wolves?” The Wolf-Man’s Dream: Multiplicity Against Oedipalization Deleuze and Guattari begin their critique by examining Freud’s famous case study of the Wolf-Man, particularly his dream of wolves sitting in a tree. This dream becomes a battleground for conflicting interpretive methods. The dream’s content is relatively simple:…