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Comp Lit Makes Me Feel Stupid
Sep. 18th, 2015 07:50 amI'm trying to read an academic study of a popular author, and I can't understand any of it. Any passage chosen at random is equally unintelligible to me. For example:
Postmodernism's radical compression of perspective negates ontological stratification, necessitating a restructuring of the hermeneutics of expression. The inviolability of the self is crystallized into the physical, mechanical 'black box,' the disparate elements of a dimensional subjectivity rendered anthropomorphic entities with individual consciousness and agency distinct from the originary monad, and the Freudian divisions of the psyche externalized onto geographical terrain, with the subterranean naturally corresponding to the territory of the repressed. The disenchantment with the strata model must then necessarily give way to an alternative dialectics of ontology.
I think what the writer is trying to say here is that many postmodern authors reject a simple division between the conscious and the unconscious...
...but I'm not sure??
Sometimes I start thinking that I'm smart, and then I remember that mostly I'm just talented at pretending to be smart. People who are actually smart live in a different universe.
Postmodernism's radical compression of perspective negates ontological stratification, necessitating a restructuring of the hermeneutics of expression. The inviolability of the self is crystallized into the physical, mechanical 'black box,' the disparate elements of a dimensional subjectivity rendered anthropomorphic entities with individual consciousness and agency distinct from the originary monad, and the Freudian divisions of the psyche externalized onto geographical terrain, with the subterranean naturally corresponding to the territory of the repressed. The disenchantment with the strata model must then necessarily give way to an alternative dialectics of ontology.
I think what the writer is trying to say here is that many postmodern authors reject a simple division between the conscious and the unconscious...
...but I'm not sure??
Sometimes I start thinking that I'm smart, and then I remember that mostly I'm just talented at pretending to be smart. People who are actually smart live in a different universe.
