So, reading Freud's The Uncanny, I found myself captivated by the reading and the analysis of Hoffmann's The Sand-Man. The most important piece of this analysis is the argument (not on castration and the eyes, because Jesus Christ, Freud really hammers that down by the end of the work) but instead that Freud states (concerning the "events" of the story) "These and many other features of the tale appear arbitrary and meaningless if one rejects the relation between fear for the eyes and fear of castration, but they become meaningful as soon as the Sand-Man is replaced by the dreaded father," (140).
Working on Exercise 1, I felt obligated to give some meaning as I tried to tie together thematic elements to my "experiment" (which I suppose everyone will see tomorrow) but it is here that I see the real heart of one of the ways to go about writing the collage comes from. When taking pieces, be they art work or lyrics or a paragraph from a book, the theme that ties them all together becomes the driving force of that piece. So in our works, having a theme that brings all of these seemingly arbitrary, different aspects together, will give our work meaning beyond "well, we were wanting to make something different". The theme leads to deeper analysis and understanding.
I just hope everyone doesn't do their theme on castration. Yuck.
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