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January 29, 2005
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also janet emig's "the uses of the unconscious in composition" (also in twom) is very nice stuff, although it works, perhaps, a little too well. her point, to oversimplify, is that it (the unconscious) is there, is in use, and no amount of scientific language, artful arguing, or deliberate, cat-like ignoring is going to make it go away--by which she doesn't mean just "cease to exist" but "cease to be absolutely crucial to everything that happens on--and getting to--the page."
the result, however, is that now i'm much more strongly motivated to go drink some coffee, fondle soft parchment, grind my own black ink, and write poetry than i am to carry on summarizing and synthesizing academic articles!
Posted by ttobryan at January 29, 2005 04:55 PM