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Oh my God, did I ever fall down on this daily blogging idea! Sorry folks, I haven't forgotten my blog but got distracted by Art A Whirl and that's all there is to it.
I want to tell you tho,
I have come across some very interesting information on neurasthenia: a 19th century disease (and somewhat of a theory of the American culture) based on "nerve economy", which affected those of a sensitive refined nature (ie: artists,poets,virgins and intellectuals) as well as the reprobate elements that dissipate on a regular basis.(more on that later) There is a real dialectic going on there.
the Bookref is "American Nervousness 1903 " by Tom Lutz. c.1991 Cornell University Press
The basic theory is that everyone has a "nerve force" which is subject to a strict bodily economy, if you use it in work or procreation, you can be "successful" (probably rational and responsible too) ,and the energy/force is productive and reinvested, but if you use it in a "unproductive" way,ie: gambling, vices, spillage of the seed (& you Know what that is) you will become dissapated and slide toward decadence, and then you become an artist,HA!
No,really! It's easy to see where our cultures attitudes toward Art came from, I mean, attitudes that people still have, like "You can't make a living doing that,can you?" aha, you see the connection. I only have notes from the introduction chapter,so please take that into consideration. I want to get further into this, but I have to find the book again. It is a gem, and I really couldn't help seeing it's context within sublimation,as well. After all, sublimation was a 19th c. construct as well. I'll end there because I don't have a strong enough argumemt to connect all that there is
to connect, but I feel like I am on a trail of breadcrumbs that may result in an inspired essay some day. I will say this, he wrote of a distrust of modernity and I think that is also present on our postmodern culture. So there...hope I made up for lost time.