Comments on: Writing a case history of oneself

By: Laura Gonzalez

Laura Gonzalez — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:32:17 +0000

Scott MacLeod makes an interesting point: http://www.dispatx.com/make/comments.php?item=3247

By: LInda Herbertson

LInda Herbertson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:57:33 +0000

Laura, long time no post – where arrreee yooouuuu ????

By: LInda Herbertson

LInda Herbertson — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:15:02 +0000

I’ll put it my list…

I’m no where near the end of analysis – I feel stuck in the middle at the moment, actually, though something is definitely changing – and I would like to write about it, but I suppose I’ll find (decide on) an angle some day.
I felt a bit overwhelmed by the Lying Diary idea – “The actual audience for the diary is the ego ideal that the diarist imagines looking on and measuring the words” – whatever I write will be deception of some kind.
Maybe I could do it in an anonymous blog. That would at least let me formulate some things for myself, even if it was of no use to anybody else!

By: Laura Gonzalez

Laura Gonzalez — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:20:42 +0000

Very interesting, Linda. Thank you! I found the piece here:

http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/viewArticle/58

With regards to the issue of diary writing, I really like his brief analysis on Kierkegaard’s Diary of a Seducer! One of the most fascinating diaries I have read…

By: LInda Herbertson

LInda Herbertson — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:24:03 +0000

Very interesting Laura.
Too busy now to look for it now, have to run and lie down on a couch, but there is a passage about diary writing in Tod Mcgowan’s piece on The Prestige that could apply to blogs…
And the question of voice is fascinating…