Leaping out of Shakespeare’s Terror

Five Meditations on Othello

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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Othello since I saw a production of the play in London’s Barbican. It was the first time I had seen it performed on stage. As far as I could tell, I was the only black person in the audience. The seats beside me were occupied by three white girls. They noisily crackled their packets of sweets and giggled a lot. I wanted to tell them to be quiet. But I suspected that if I spoke faces would turn towards me. After a while I couldn’t bear it any longer. When I spoke, what I feared happened. Faces turned, eyes lit up in recognition. My skin glowed. I felt myself illuminated, unable to hide.

I used to agree with C. L. R. James that Othello is not a play about race. The Royal Shakespeare Company thought so as well...

lacan reading list?

• EVA and Lacan http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2006/03/la...
  • Shinji’s story strongly mirrors in interesting ways the trajectory of Lacan’s subject, distraught, tortured by thought, divorced from being. All humans according to Lacan are born premature, incomplete, producing an infant desire to be one with the mother. To be the object of the mother’s desire. But her desire is always deflected elsewhere, never enough to complete the link with the child.
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  • First a clarification must be made here. The crucial difference between Lacan and Freud is Lacan’s emphasis on language as opposed to biology for the basis for his theories. The law of the Father is therefore not so much the father himself, but instead a function of language. A condit...

i love my wonderful cast of Freaks

walking gingerly across the bruised earth hannibal/will

• https://archiveofourown.org/works/203340...
• hannibal gets will high and they talk for 4000 words
  • “You can have mine.” Will realized he was staring at the backs of his eyelids and opened them. “Jack has my brain, I guess, but you can at least have my bones. You can cover your harpsichord with them.”

let it be a fairy tale hannibal/will + bedelia

• https://archiveofourown.org/works/396923...
• this one is like 13k but its like my favorite thing ever... op has their dynamic DOWNNN. as the tags say, its about agency and not being able to quit people