By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:01:33 +0000

yohei. that is a beautiful little etymological retracing (of course, my favorite kind). it particularly resonated for me as i am a very big ‘kings of convenience’ fan and avowedly obstinate admirer of freud. unheimliche’s stitched paradox is precisely what makes it so very interesting, nice constellation of thought. i am curious if you have ‘garden state?’ in it, there is a scene where the protagonist, andrew largeman, muses about home in a quiet corner of a swimming pool with his nascent girlfriend. first, he remarks that once you leave home there comes a moment when you can never go back. he says: “It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist.” in fact, this echoes the k of c’s song homesick when they intone “i’ve travelled far and i’ve burned all the bridges.’ largeman then, he asks whether or not that is simply a rite of passage whereby we incessantly concern ourselves–from that point on–with trying to create a new idea of home elsewhere. and i believe that there is something there; that is, something the act of creating one’s home (i give a shout of to lina, fem. theory for this one). and this perhaps explains the dyadic potential, or the stitchedness of its paradox. for in creation there is always a risk that things go awry. so perhaps that feeling of homesickness, that feeling of not entirely being at home with oneself (levinas) is the corollary of not being successful at creating one’s home. this might explain it’s swing potential to be or not. for my part, i have found myself expressly creating my home here in yellowknife, and it must be successful (at least thus far) because i feel at home with myself and not homesick of mtl… not yet. loved your piece.

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