Tag Archives: Melanie Klein

Passive Students

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Zegreus Moole

Chinese teachers sometimes  complain about their students’ passivity (很被动). This rebuke can imply various disparaged tendencies such as inattentiveness, indifference, sponsibility, and nonchalance. To put this concisely, it is where students do only what they feel is obligatory, and they … Continue reading →

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Trauma of Possession

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Zegreus Moole

Spirit possession is when someone losses control of themselves, and their organs and even their thoughts come under the direction of external forces.  Anthropologists would normally reserve this term for special cases where the phenomenon is recognized, and wouldn’t themselves … Continue reading →

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Planetary Literature

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Zegreus Moole

Maurice Blanchot considered ‘literature’ as generic writing, meaning that it’s uncontained within genres, and  any writing might be literature, so long as reading becomes an unanchored, drifting experience of the sui generis where the faculties of sense are abandoned to reverie.  This is an experience where writing and … Continue reading →

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