Beyond the Fiction of Reality, There is the Reality of Fiction:
Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents untrue or imaginary information or content.
Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. It is a memory bias whereby a person may falsely recall generating a thought, an idea, a tune, a name, or a joke. They are not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but are experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.
Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted, or in other ways falsified. Individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless or visually distorted.
Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again. Repetition compulsion can also take the form of dreams in which memories and feelings of what happened are repeated, and in cases of psychosis, may even be hallucinated.
“The patient does not remember anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, he acts it out, without, of course, knowing that he is repeating it“
“The wound can only be healed by the spear that smote it”.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of fiction:
“It is misleading to refer to their art as propaganda since they came to believe their own performance.
To take myth, fiction and narrative as reality was fundamental to the success of their revolution.”
“The distinction between a delusion and a strongly held idea is sometimes difficult to make and depends in part on the degree of conviction with which the belief is held despite clear or reasonable contradictory evidence regarding its veracity.”
“We must not seek a logic or a sequence which things do not contain, we must interpret the intimate meaning of the images
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of fiction.”
A Timeless Reality. Immune to the Traumas of History:
“The timelessness of history is reflected in the structure of the narrative itself.
Present and future tenses are intermingled with past tense descriptions of historical events.
He wanted to turn history into nature; associative montages, scene dissolves, match cuts, and suggestive film music were used extensively.
Time is out of Joint.”
Contamination of the Soil:
“Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood, water and rock. Once a certain idea of landscape, a myth, a vision, establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents; of becoming, in fact, part of the scenery.”
“Just as woodlands were fading from the real landscape, their presence was growing in the imaginary realm namely in culture, music, art and literature. These imagined landscapes can function as projection screens for manifold cultural constructions, political agendas, and public perceptions.”
“The essence of religion is in collective representations (shared images).
A technology of overcoming. To endure or conquer the trials of existence”
Not All Satires Provoke Laughter:
“When terror reaches a certain level you can only treat it as a comedy”
"Since satire, and especially caricature, aims at making its readers or beholders realize that something is wrong, it deforms and exaggerates its subject, often to a degree that makes it seem ridiculous, although not all satires provoke laughter.”
“At first sight most caricatures seem semantically less complex, but at a second glance they leave much room for (mis-)interpretation which often make it difficult to discern the object of mockery. This, however, is the prerequisite for reaching their double goal of entertaining the audience while influencing their political opinion. Often they cynically comment on a critical issue without offering solutions. This is known as a camouflage publication. A publication that masquerades as information about a certain subject (e.g. environmental and ecological issues) while secretly harboring extremist political ideology.”
“Sometimes the very reference to depth and complexity can make us forget the very obvious facts”
Geistervariationen:
Ghost, spirit intellect, psyche, soul, the seat of feeling, thought, and moral judgement.
- An invisible, hidden or barely visible presence.
- Haunted by history.
- 'Full of Fear, 'Trembling’, “to Terrify”.
Weltgeist "world-spirit",
Volksgeist "national spirit"
Zeitgeist "spirit of the age” ,
Geisteskrank "mentally ill”