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Would it be possible for a modern person to read Marechera and understand him?
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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago
+Antistar211 I think the biggest difficulty for a modern person is that they are not burdened by Superego in the same way as a non-modern person is. When I read Marechera, what took my breath away was that he had not been forcibly annihilated by his Superego. Authoritarian culture tends to create schizoids, not narcissists. Schizoids have very flattened and underdeveloped feelings, and probably a lot of rage, which rarely gets expressed. There is a heavy lid over their heads all the time that prevents them from understanding themselves or expressing much of anything. That is the force of FORBIDDENNESS. It's the annihilating angel in the Garden of Eden, that prevents a return to Paradise. To lift that lid off one's head after one has been rendered a schizoid by the violent mechanics of the system takes tremendous courage. One ends up revealing all that one's culture wants one to repress. That is the shocking nature of Marechera's writing that is really only evident to those who have a similar schizoid nature and who are willing to open up to the experience entailed in absorbing the writing.BLACK SUNLIGHT is pretty much complete rage and transgression all the way through. Its contents are the cultural repressions of the country in a state of war and revolution. I, personally, felt annihilated by this book, but I was able to rebuild myself (although this took time).
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Would it be possible for a modern person to read Marechera and understand him?
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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago
+Antistar211 I think the biggest difficulty for a modern person is that they are not burdened by Superego in the same way as a non-modern person is. When I read Marechera, what took my breath away was that he had not been forcibly annihilated by his Superego. Authoritarian culture tends to create schizoids, not narcissists. Schizoids have very flattened and underdeveloped feelings, and probably a lot of rage, which rarely gets expressed. There is a heavy lid over their heads all the time that prevents them from understanding themselves or expressing much of anything. That is the force of FORBIDDENNESS. It's the annihilating angel in the Garden of Eden, that prevents a return to Paradise. To lift that lid off one's head after one has been rendered a schizoid by the violent mechanics of the system takes tremendous courage. One ends up revealing all that one's culture wants one to repress. That is the shocking nature of Marechera's writing that is really only evident to those who have a similar schizoid nature and who are willing to open up to the experience entailed in absorbing the writing.BLACK SUNLIGHT is pretty much complete rage and transgression all the way through. Its contents are the cultural repressions of the country in a state of war and revolution. I, personally, felt annihilated by this book, but I was able to rebuild myself (although this took time).
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