The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient... prohibitions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to ...enable us to get there.... Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, followi...ng one's nose, taking shortcuts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits ...of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of... a primary need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »