“The subterraneans”
Maio 25, 2010
Images: Jackson Pollock 51
Music: “Subterranean” from David Bowie’s “Low” 1977.
Words: ‘The Subterraneans” excerpt by Jack Kerouac 1958
Movie from the book: “The subterraneans” (1960; Dir. Ranald MacDougall) featuring Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Art Farmer, André Previn and Carmen McRae on screen.
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Kerouac writes through love, but through a love that Leo is afraid of falling in. And his writing is the product of a sick desire, it is driven by a love of love, a desire to be desired. Kerouac exposes himself through Leo in such a way as to show why it is necessary to create something without becoming destructive of either the self or the other. Something that he himself doesn’t know how to do. It is an ill will that drives Kerouac towards manic-depressive, self-destructive alcoholism. His consciousness of the absence of “eternal love” in this finite life together with his immortal longing for an eternal love turn him into “a shipwreck on the shores of lust.” What Kerouac lacks in life is what is necessary to operate the war-machine in Kerouac. Love is the force that drives the war-machine and Kerouac is afraid of loving with a greater love, without projective identification. He is a paranoid love-machine because his love is in the form of a spark given birth by the struggle between the superiority and the inferiority complexes he simultaneously harbors within himself.
http://cengizerdem.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/the-projection-introjection-mechanism-in-jack-kerouac%e2%80%99s-the-subterraneans/
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Hi Cengiz, excelent work/comment. Congratulations!
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