Jul. 30, 2012 at 9:49pm with 20 notes
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What he encountered in the dream was much more unbearable even than external reality, so that he woke up to escape to that reality. In dreams, there is a traumatic encounter. The dreamer wakes at this point. Our ordinary reality enables us to evade an encounter with true trauma. The reversal of the relationship between dream und reality: the dream is crielly interrupted by the wake-up call, the reality is interrupted by the imagined command. The father, who was unable to save his son, is haunted afterwards by his reproach, “Vater, siehst du nicht, daß ich verbrenne?” In our society of the spectacle, what we experience as everyday reality more and more takes the form of the lie made real. Some of us play the computer games which enable a neurotic weakling to adopt the screen persona of a macho aggressor, beating up orther men, violently enjoying women. This weakling takes refuge in the cyberspace in order to escape from a dull, impotent reality. In playing them, he articulates the perverse core of his personality which he’s unable to act out in the real world because of social prohibitions. So his virtual persona is in a way more real than reality. “Just a game”, in which he can do what he would never be able to do in real life. The Truth has the structure of a fiction; a fiction tells more than reality. What appears in the guise of dreaming is sometimes the Truth, reailty is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

What he encountered in the dream was much more unbearable even than external reality, so that he woke up to escape to that reality. In dreams, there is a traumatic encounter. The dreamer wakes at this point. Our ordinary reality enables us to evade an encounter with true trauma. The reversal of the relationship between dream und reality: the dream is crielly interrupted by the wake-up call, the reality is interrupted by the imagined command. The father, who was unable to save his son, is haunted afterwards by his reproach, “Vater, siehst du nicht, daß ich verbrenne?” In our society of the spectacle, what we experience as everyday reality more and more takes the form of the lie made real. Some of us play the computer games which enable a neurotic weakling to adopt the screen persona of a macho aggressor, beating up orther men, violently enjoying women. This weakling takes refuge in the cyberspace in order to escape from a dull, impotent reality. In playing them, he articulates the perverse core of his personality which he’s unable to act out in the real world because of social prohibitions. So his virtual persona is in a way more real than reality. “Just a game”, in which he can do what he would never be able to do in real life. The Truth has the structure of a fiction; a fiction tells more than reality. What appears in the guise of dreaming is sometimes the Truth, reailty is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

(Source: desamoursdebeauxmecs)

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