{"id":10694,"date":"2013-03-19T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T01:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10694"},"modified":"2013-07-13T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T18:22:17","slug":"zizek-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/03\/19\/zizek-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek poetry Midsummer nights dream 2009 and 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madman, Lover and the Poet<\/a> Midsummer’s Night Dream Act 5<\/p>\n

THESEUS
\nA gap between ordinary reality and some ethereal dimension, but this gap is gradually reduced starting with madman, then lover and then finally closed?? with the Poet.<\/p>\n

The lunatic, the lover and the poet<\/em>
\n Are of imagination all compact:<\/em>
\n One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,<\/em>
\n That is, the madman:<\/em>
\n[A madman simply sees madmen, devils everywhere. He misperceives a bush for a bear]<\/p>\n

the lover, all as frantic,<\/em>
\n Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt:<\/em>
\n[Transubstantiated into appearance of sublime dimension, the face appears as it is, but still the lover its sees beauty as you are as such, at the same time you are something sublime, true love doesn’t idealize. Lover sees beauty in an ordinary face.]<\/p>\n

The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,<\/em>
\n Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;<\/em>
\n And as imagination bodies forth<\/em>
\n The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen<\/em>
\n Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing<\/em>
\n A local habitation and a name.<\/em><\/p>\n

[Transcendence is reduced to zero. Empirical reality is not transubstantiated into a materialization of a higher reality, but into materialization of nothing. In ordinary life appearance means the appearance of something behind. Poetry is appearance against the background of nothing, the moment you are looking for something behind as it were, you lose the point. ]<\/p>\n

Such tricks hath strong imagination,<\/em>
\n That if it would but apprehend some joy,<\/em>
\n It comprehends some bringer of that joy;<\/em>
\n Or in the night, imagining some fear,<\/em>
\n How easy is a bush supposed a bear!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u017d in Iran 2012
\nTalks about Shakespeare’s Midsummer here<\/a>
\nWe have a gap between ordinary reality and some transcendent ethereal dimension.\u00a0 But in all 3 cases this distance is reduced.<\/p>\n

Madman false realty misperceived as reality, bush misperceived as bear.
\nLover retains the transubstantiated appearance into a sublime dimension. This imperfect frail being is the absolute.
\nThe Poet we also get appearance, but we don’t misperceive it, its not transcendence in ordinary as in love, it is a MATERIALIZATION OF NOTHING.\u00a0 You have an appearance, it is not some substantial X that appears, its nothing, nothing appears.\u00a0 This is a nice formula for political revolution.\u00a0 To give shape to nothing.\u00a0 The opening of the new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madman, Lover and the Poet Midsummer’s Night Dream Act 5 THESEUS A gap between ordinary reality and some ethereal dimension, but this gap is gradually reduced starting with madman, then lover and then finally closed?? with the Poet. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than … Continue reading “\u017di\u017eek poetry Midsummer nights dream 2009 and 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,76,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dia-mat","category-sub-destitute","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}