"On Love"

[evensong]

Some people would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love.
La Rochefoucauld
If sex is the way out of the family, falling in love is the route back, the one-way ticket that is always a return. From a psychoanalytic point of view these miracles of affinity are echoes of our first fascinations. Such states of absorption are memory in

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[evensong]

me too :)

i'm absolutely fascinated by these brilliant theorizations on the most un-theorizable of topics (sexuality, gender, melancholia, love...). i suppose it's a testimony to how much of a muddle my life is--that i so desperately attempt to make sense of it in such a way, even though i know it can never be made sense of. the complexities of theory are always inadequate to the complexities of life (and, ironically, how poststructural is that?). but such ideas are intellectually and emotionally beautiful to me nonetheless--i don't think i enjoy anything else quite as much. and i'm glad someone else on my friends list likes such explorations too :)

[imogenius]

I love this, and I always quote from these pieces that you put up (in emails and short notes and the like) and people always ask where the quote is from, and I've sent some names their way. It's a good thing.

[evensong]

Oh I'm delighted that you like them enough to quote them, and I'm always pleased to think that the words are being spread. It is a good thing.

I've been looking at your LJ recently, and realised how much I love your words--how much I had almost forgotten I loved them until I remembered only by discovering them again. I do hope you're well, these days?

[imogenius]

Oh, thank you :) I am doing quite well, a little stress over a few tough decisions, but otherwise it's breezy. Hope you are glorious yourself, and that you had a lovely summer...

[foreignhotels]

i really miss entries like this, and people like you. so, i decided to come back to livejournal; new alias for the wartime heroine. + add me if you wish, i'd love it. x

[evensong]

i vacillate back and forth, to and from, livejournal too. but i'm glad that you are back; even though we don't talk all that often, i've always been impressed by the depth and thoughtfulness of your experiences, life decisions, intelligence. and of course i'd love to add you back. i hope you're doing well--how is the start of college?

[aerodrome1]

Beautiful quote.