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tencin: high wire act between rationalism and passion
“My menagerie,” Alexandrine Tencin called her salon; her guests were “mes betes.” Her Tuesdays she filled with good talk, high spirits, and low comedy involving chamber pots and such. Her leisure she filled with literature, the recourse of the bored. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Charlotte Lennox, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Jean-Honore Fragonard, La Fresnais and Mme de Tencin, Lord Chesterfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Albrecht, Mme de Tencin, Montesquieu, Peter Gay, Regent Fontenelle, Rene Vaillot, Renee Vaillot, Renee Winegarten, Voltaire
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one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria
In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess, Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Alma Schindler, Angela Dilkey, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bruce Beresford, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, Franz Werfel, Friederich Austerlitz, George Beard, Gustav Klimdt, Joan Arehart-Treichel, Josef Breuer, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Klimdt, Linda Simon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Nordau, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Gay, Ray Monk, Robert S. Wistrich, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Tom Lehrer, Wilhelm Fliess
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PARADISE POSTPONED: SHAKIN' ALL OVER
Works like Victor Hugo’s Hernani (1830) and Han d’Islande (1823), Frédéric Soulié’s Les Mémoires du Diableand (1838), Charles Nodier’s La Fée aux Miettes (1832), and indeed Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830), all came to typify this emerging trope of Romanticism. Philosopher’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Brian Stonehill, Charles Nodier, Claude-Antoine Coypel, Francesca Brittan, Frederic Souile, Habeneck, Hector Berlioz, Ingmar Bergman, jacques Prevert, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Marcel Carne Children of Paradise, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Marcel Proust, Peter Cowie, Peter Gay, Peter Gay the Naked Heart, Proust, Victor Hugo
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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS
”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Seidl, Beethoven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Gaspard Deburau, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, John Everett Millais, Julian Rushton, Karl Ludwig Sand, Leopold Stokowski, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Peter Gay, Raphael, Robert Schumann, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Tom S. Wotton, Walt Disney fantasia, William Holman Hunt
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