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Nitpicker wrote:

Again with the Id Monster from Forbidden Planet?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_literature wrote:

[img3="MODERNIST writers, like modernist painters, sometimes show a 'desperation to capture a reality that disappears in the instant of its occurring ... the uniqueness, the fluidity ... the evanescence but also the incredible beauty ... of the moment,' according to scholar of modernist literature David Thorburn. The artist shows an "agony and ecstasy" that the world is escaping right at the moment of creation. Painting: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. "]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... t_edit.jpg[/img3]

<<MODERNIST literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. [It involves] a strand of thinking... that it was necessary to push aside previous norms entirely, instead of merely revising past knowledge in light of contemporary techniques. Influential in the early days of Modernism were the theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), and Ernst Mach (1838–1916). Mach argued, beginning in the 1880s with The Science of Mechanics (1883), that the mind had a fundamental structure, and that subjective experience was based on the interplay of parts of the mind. Freud's first major work was Studies on Hysteria (1895). According to Freud's ideas, all subjective reality was based on the play of basic drives and instincts, through which the outside world was perceived. As a philosopher of science Ernst Mach was a major influence on logical positivism, and through his criticism of Isaac Newton, a forerunner of Einstein's theory of relativity. According to these ideas of Mach, the relations of objects in nature were not guaranteed but known only through a sort of mental shorthand. Freud's description of subjective states, involving an unconscious mind full of primal impulses, and counterbalancing self-imposed restrictions, was combined by Carl Jung (1875–1961) with the idea of the collective unconscious, with which the conscious mind fought or embraced. While Charles Darwin's work remade the aristotelian concept of "man, the animal" in the public mind, Jung suggested that human impulses toward breaking social norms were not the product of childishness, or ignorance, but rather derived from the essential nature of the human animal.>>