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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: The Ineffable, Joke, Sublimation - Maria Damon, myself
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:05:51 -0400 (EDT)
The Ineffable, Joke, Sublimation - Maria Damon, Alan Sondheim http://www.alansondheim.org/ineffable.png http://www.alansondheim.org/maria.mp3 (M.D.) http://www.alansondheim.org/joke.mp3 (M.D., A.S.) http://www.alansondheim.org/alanflute.mp3 (A.S.) I understand that sublimation is the process of repressing the "baser" instincts i.e. the libido in favor of structure and cultural production of some kind, but it also seems as if the same processes and products are in play in the attempt to reach the highest point of metaphysical ineffability and failing; the music, art, high-level philosophical/mathematical thinking that results is the by-product of aiming *beyond* the point of articulability rather than having its origins in the realm *below* it. Of course these are the two sides of the same coin of, say, addiction. - Maria Damon
