February 15, 2001

• whoo hoo….vday and the profusion of pink and red is over….and i have survived! (so has danae and lester – danae has the most beautiful flowers right now i think she is blossoming under lester’s gaze)

  
  

  i’ve been busy with work and doing nothing much else besides. Here’s a little part of my readings to share with all of you – i personally find it hilarious. From Jean Baudrillaud’s The System of Collecting, It is about collecting and why people collect objects. In it he says,

  
  

  “The active phase of collecting seems to occur between the ages of seven and twelve, during the period of latency prior to puberty. With the onset of puberty, the collecting impulse tends to disappear….later on, it is men in their forties (this can be read as MID-LIFE CRISIS) who seem most prone to the pass [for collecting]. In short, a correlation with sexuality can generally be be demonstrated , so that the activity of collecting may be seen as a POWERFUL MECHANISM OF COMPENSATION during critical phases in a person’s sexual development. Invariably it runs COUNTER to ACTIVE GENITAL SEXUALITY”

  
  

  now…the words in bold are my own emphasis – but thsi is hilarious. it truly is…..this is the result of Freudian analysis applied to the practice of collecting…..the rest of the article talks about the practice in similar terms, though not so overtly. I personally feel that Baudrillaud is reading a bit too much between the lines here…..and to think that i am studying this for an upper-level seminar class…..:-P

  
  

  isn’t life wonderful? 

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