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deconstruction/reconstruction: conscious/unconscious in art/lit
I think there's a really important, if somewhat inchoate, idea bubbling around from our last Tuesday session and earlier ones. The idea, relevant to literature and painting and philosophy and ... life, is that one can find new lines of exploration by deconstructing one's current conscious understandings: that conscious understanding reflect simpler unconscious elements that have been elaborated in various ways, and that one can recombine the simpler elements to yield new directions of exploration that wouldn't have been accessible through the elaborated forms. Hence, against "method" and against "interpretation" not in the sense that we shouldn't try and make sense of things but rather in the sense that we should recongize that existing ways of making sense of things build on unconscious understandings and that if we genuinely want to find new ways to make sense of things it is the unconscious underlying understandings that need to be recognized and altered.
With that idea in mind, what's interesting in the language arena is not only Robert Frost and formal logic but also some transitional forms between them:
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Gertrude Stein, Buttons
James Joyce, Ulysses
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Like a late Mondrian painting, these linguistic creations are, to various degrees, offered not to be "interpreted" in terms of underlying meaning but rather as efforts to expose the bare bones of the unconscious (which has explanation but not meaning) out of which meaning may be subsequently elaborated. They require us not to "intepret" them but rather to ourselves create new meaning out of them.