[...]erceives in oneself but seems unacceptable is instead attributed to another person, denial in attribution ='lgc'>[still popular ="ppl">Feuerbach's idea of “="trms">religion='lgc'> = projection”, “God='lgc'> = outward projection of a human's inward ="trms">nature” informing secular ="trms">anthropological explanation='lgc'>] نسبت دادن احساس خود به دیگری
="lsts lst2">◦it changes the reality (for the person who projects)
="lsts lst2">◦it operates unconsciously (the person won't accept that they project)
="lsts lst1">•rationalization='lgc'>: irrationalities are explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner and are made consciously tolerable, ad hoc hypothesis='lgc'>: to save it from being falsified ='lgc'>[='lgc'><== introspection illusion='lgc'>: cognitive bias of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of one's own state='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•fantasy
="lsts lst1">•denial
="lsts lst1">•reaction formation='lgc'>: ="trms">responses to ="trms">internal threats and ="trms">anxieties, ="trms">anxiety is mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency. phobia is always reaction formation='lgc'>: the person wants what he fears. ='lgc'>[solicitude (may be a reaction formation) against cruelty, pacifism against sadism, etc.='lgc'>] when ='strcls'>*instincts (and their derivatives) are arranged as pairs of op="trms">posites='strcls'>* (life/death, construction/destruction, action/passivity, dominance/sub="trms">mission); ="trms">techniques='lgc'>: exaggeration, compulsiveness, inflexibility='lgc'>: “reactive ="trms">love protests too much.” “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (it cannot adapt itself to changing circumstances as genuine emotions do)
="lsts lst2">◦intellectualization ='lgc'>{="trms">memory of event ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intellectualization ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> conscious analysis of non-="trms">anxiety provoking information about an event='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦dis="trms">sociation
="lsts lst2">◦displacement='lgc'>: means of dream-distortion, ego relocates ="trms">anxiety somewhere else, ="trms">transference of emotions/wishes
="lsts lst3">◾="trms">sublimation والایش ='lgc'>[a form of displacement='lgc'>]='lgc'>: long-term conversion of the initial (negative) impulse, (alchymical in Jung) transformation of shit into gold. ='lgc'>[in ="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: ‘="trms">sublimation='lgc'> = plasticity of the sexual instincts’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= in ="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: ‘="trms">sublimation='lgc'> = (usually cosmic='qstn'>?) process of creation in ex nihilo style’ ='lgc'>: an object (manufactured or not) defined in ="trms">relation to the emptiness of Das Ding (empty canvas) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sublimation ='lgc'>~ dismissal/Verwerfung='lgc'>: obsessional ="trms">relational behaviour attributed to the avoidance of the primordial emptiness (of Das Ding) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? ="trms">religion/art...
='strcls'>**penis ="trms">sublimates into ="trms">seriousness='strcls'>**, adolescence into ="trms">poetry, emotions into mystical art into dominance,,,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦repression/suppression='lgc'>: subduing in the unconscious (under the influence of the superego='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•withdrawal
="lsts lst1">•regression='lgc'>: a way of relating to the ="trms">world that was formerly effective (to recapture some ="trms">childhood satisfaction)
="lsts lst1">•

="lsts lst1">•pathological defense mechanism='lgc'>: delusional projection, denial, distortion, extreme projection, splitting
="lsts lst1">•immature defense mechanism='lgc'>: acting out, fantasy, idealization, passive-aggression, projection, projective identification, somatization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">neurotic defense mechanism='lgc'>: displacement, dis="trms">sociation, hypochondriasis, isolation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, undoing
="lsts lst1">•mature defense mechanism='lgc'>: altruism, anticipation, humour, identification, intellectualization, introjection, ="trms">sublimation, suppression
="lsts lst1">•other defensive mechanisms='lgc'>: compartmentalization, defensive pessimism, exaggeration, minimisation, postponement of ="trms">affect

='strcls'>*it is job of defense mechanism to distort, transform, or falsify the perceived reality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to help deal with the id or superego, reducing ="trms">anxiety


ego='lgc'>: part of our psyche that is reality based

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
methinks

...the absence of mercy

="trms">complain ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ elegy ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ prayer (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire to future)
(elegy assumes that there is something in the information that makes a ="trms">difference and not in the receiver of info.)

(="trms">question to an ="nms">Iranian friend='lgc'>:) “why must we fasten our gaze to the objects of damage and derangement='qstn'>?” “why light lanterns to behold the corpse='qstn'>?” “or extend our focus on them='qstn'>?” (I am using ="ppl">Mohaghegh's words,) the extremist (or other ="trms">aesthetic-philosophical strands of extremisms) would tell us not to look away, for the thought and expression have taken the shape of a ‘meteorological device,’ forecasting seasons (of storm)...

(you take the mithridatic venom to) cross into the next level of temporal experience

he makes “engravings of the atrocity”
(حکاکی از) سبعیت

a fanatical ="trms">response to the storm


a charismatic ="trms">authority undertakes a ="trms">poetic ="trms">articulation
or a ="trms">poetic ="trms">articulation becomes committed to an ideological program
='lgc'>[="nms">Iran Iraq war='lgc'>]


mysticism, a protocol of extremity, geared towards the immensification of narrow vision
gigantic singularity
itself the house of many paradoxes='lgc'>: that of wisdom and rage, that of boundlessness and confinement, that of precision and enormity, ="trms">nature and ="trms">technology (apprentices to a lesser artisan-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurgist god ="trms">interested only in functional architecture and ="trms">instrumentalized objects), betrayal and devotion,
mysticism is one of post="trms">modern ‘mask,’ there are many others (the chaos-mask / face='qstn'>?, etc.)
one of many existential prototypes, subjectivity constellations, etc.

sliding between hostile and relaxed patterns of ...

with a sixth sense for disappearance
gained attunement to nothing
what are the athleticism of this stillness='qstn'>?

="large lg1" stl="font-size:139%"> the turn in the thought of the mystic to externalize that same meditative daze!
what if an enthusiasm took hold to transfer this personal, self-contained oblivion ="trms">onto a universal plane='qstn'>?
a single mood-shift='lgc'>: ="trms">interiority feels the need to stretch out into exteriority.
without the logic of judgment


(in the aftermath of the 2th century) many visionaries of western thought (='lgc'>--post="trms">moderns='lgc'>--) have emphasized a (desperate) need to inject ambiguity and doubt into our collective ="trms">imagination



where is absolutism in San'an='qstn'>?

own descent (Abstieg) into ="trms">paranoia

when in master-disciple ="trms">relationship one is asked/taught not only ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the works of ="trms">past visionaries='lgc'>: rather to entertain the same mania, drunkenness, cruelty, or absorb temperament that engendered the very ="trms">materialization of that text.
='lgc'>[="ppl">Attar asking us to entertain the same mania when ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading Tazkirat al-Awliya='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

...lending cryptic terminologies and cosmic ideas

to become an echo of a profound legacy


we ask again='lgc'>: which phantom-sphere is more ="trms">interesting='qstn'>? more ="trms">aesthetically and philosophically attractive in its c="trms">ontours, appearances, and orchestrations='qstn'>?

which archive remains in fire throughout='qstn'>?

="prgrph">-which (archival='qstn'>?) constructs promise to survive us='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-things that run on hollow ="trms">spectacles of meanings and simulations of depth
="prgrph">-adapting old tales to new territories of experience


an apocalyptic significance in the master-disciple ="trms">relationship
(topology of ="trms">communication/education)


(mysticism) an excursion into the other="trms">worldly (or the eternal)
lending cryptic terminologies and cosmic ideas a palpable and resurgent quality.



THE pursuit='lgc'>: to become the echo of a profound legacy

the ="trms">question is not the legitimate/authentic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges versus superstitious/mythic doctrines, rather='lgc'>: which phantom-sphere is more arresting='qstn'>? which archive remains in fire throughout='qstn'>?

="trms">modern-individuality versus the magnetic power of the sectarian voice..

counter-="trms">veiling de="trms">finitions of freedom='lgc'>: the freedom of in="trms">finite mediocritized choices versus the freedom to choose the all-engulfing one thing.

these preferences='lgc'>: on some remote place of calculation or in terms of immediate force='qstn'>?


(this talk might be) a critical rant

(eastern thirds='lgc'>:)
the voice of a strange immunity

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one is hard pressed to find a truth that does not have a dead body


never-ending allegory of loss and primal innocence

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> irrational desire of a no-man's land of an eternal immaturity


(an existential evacuation)
committing oneself to erratic wanderings in the desert ='lgc'>=> ="trms">translation of a familiar topology into an ="trms">ontological modality='qstn'>?

the extravagant paradox of proximity and distance
(="trms">interiority and exteriority, ="trms">presence and absence)

civilizational taxonomies (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> versus animist taxonomies, in ="ppl">Attar's ="trms">animal-="trms">birds)

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the (sacred boundaries of mysticism) and mystic boundaries of the civilized city[...]