Rethinking ‘the book’ as a medium

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only those we’ve encountered, existed. (2018)

I thought April 2018 would be the end of the project, after the realisation of how a person could be affected by this contemporary form of ‘stories’. You kind of drifted away from it when you discover the substantial amount of unnecessary information you forced yourself to receive daily. Whats more is during the process of typographing, binding, going through the substances over and over again amplifies the emotion embedded within the lines and images. Memories repeat and repeat until you want to emancipate your mind from it – that’s what I told my audiences who visited the exhibition at RSA.

But what happened recently in the hovering city have drawn my attention, once again, back to the social media. Being absent from the crime scene doesn’t mean that you could deny a crime was committed. It is experienced by million others – and things change, so as your self-consciousness and identity, your mind forged by images and your position moved by words – all begins at the moment you choose to process an information.

People expecting a storm can’t help checking on the forecast.

 

Related: Freud and Literature

So we have been living in an age that we are so influenced by Freud’s modern physcology and psychoanalysis without actually knowing it, creative works and productions are deeply affected by his studies. Here, The Victorian Web suggested Freudianism’s connection with literature by bringing up a method of investigation: (1) treat literary works from the vantage point of psycho-biography; (2) search for “obsessive” repetitions within the work; (3) look into Freud’s comparisons between dreams and poetic language & structure. The following questions had been asked by the author:

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A more detailed interpretation of Freud’s influences on social and cultural studies could be found on Britannica.