Ballard grounded his method in psychoanalysis and surrealism’s impersonal accounts of the self
Evidence
The obsessive quality of his preoccupations and his methodology is a sign that Ballard has never lost faith with his earliest inspirations: psychoanalysis and surrealism. In both, he found a rigorously depersonalised account of the formations of the person. The so-called interior had a logic that could be both exposed and externalised. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 136
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to earlier chapter claims (ch8) that ‘addicts choose addiction; the substance is an alibi for the drive’ — the same depersonalized drive logic running through Ballard. — connects to: Psychoanalytic self-knowledge requires treating oneself as an external object; Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1340; Ballard defined Surrealism’s key mood as glassy isolation drained of emotional association — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 355
Broader Connections
- Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness
#complicates(0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1340 - Psychoanalytic self-knowledge requires treating oneself as an external object
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