Please Disregard the Following Posting

It has happened again, really it is a mere technological leap toward the absurd, a hall of mirrors, a "schlechtes Unendigkeit." Where we see a representation of a representation of a representation, (oder ein Gleichnis von ein Gleichnis...) which Oppermann will find funny or disturbing or entirely irrelevant at any given moment. Plato made this comic problem present in "the Parmenides," the problem of the "third form" I think it is called, where "toi eidoi" "the forms" are problematized: each form or ideal must be related to the fallen or "real" presentation of the idea by virtue of the form of relating the ideal to the mere shadow of appearance that we perceive.

The Oppermann Posting: Ayres in Oppermannalia

This image threatens to become overly technological: it is an image of a web-log entitled ayres-in-theoria. But it is set against the backdrop of my own computer screen. What is more enticing about the image is the reduplication of an image from Tarkowski's Zierkala: "Mirror." It is a mirroring of mirror, and it is a mirror of these web logs as well. I must go to an administrative meeting now, however it is important to note this mirroring as the factual literary contextualization of the Oppermann Posting (under the name "Falkenburger") of "Ayres in Theoria" at least in reality, if not in parable.

Oppermann contends that if I am publishing images of his web log on my web log, then I must really have nothing to say. I would argue that it is a matter of stepping out of the gaze, which in its specular, spectator form I find nauseating.... And stepping into the landscape.

Of Note: the Siegfried Incident

I am promising to write more on the death of the hero, the catastrophe of having died in a profound sense while still remaining alive. But in my characteristic Ayresian fashion I will point to an etymology to sort of save the day.

This is the mystery of "segh," and as a matter of segway I would like to add that the hero and the snake are brothers. Both serve the mother. (All this is discussed in Jung's "Symbols of Transformation," and I owe a debt to my analyst Gordon Nelson for discussing it with me today, although something is not necessarily right in including this in a web-log on Oppermann, I will include it in the words of Kafka, "so that I may feel that I have left nothing out) If the hero is killed (by the snake), the option is not to serve the snake, but to wait, perhaps to grieve.

segh- DEFINITION: To hold. Oldest form *seh-, becoming *segh- in centum languages. Derivatives include hectic, eunuch, scheme, and scholar. 1. Suffixed form *segh-es-. Siegfried, from Old High German sigu, sigo, victory, from Germanic *sigiz-, victory (< “a holding or conquest in battle”). 2. hectic; cachexia, cathexis, entelechy, eunuch, Ophiuchus, from Greek ekhein, to hold, possess, be in a certain condition, and hexis, habit, condition. 3. Possible suffixed (abstract noun) form *segh-wr, toughness, steadfastness, with derivative *segh-wr-o-, tough, stern. severe; asseverate, persevere, from Latin sevrus, stern; b. sthenia; asthenia, calisthenics, hypersthene, hyposthenia, thrombosthenin, from Greek sthenos, physical strength, from a possible related abstract noun form *sgh-wen-es- (with zero-grade of the root). 4. O-grade form *sogh-. epoch, from Greek epokh, “a holding back,” pause, cessation, position in time (epi-, on, at; see epi). 5. Zero-grade form *sgh-. a. scheme, from Greek skhma, “a holding,” form, figure; b. scholar, scholastic, scholium, school1, from Greek skhol, “a holding back,” stop, rest, leisure, employment of leisure in disputation, school. 6. Reduplicated form *si-sgh-. ischemia, from Greek iskhein, to keep back. (Pokorny seh- 888.)

The Oppermann Book

Oppermann gave me a book in a dream last night. It was clearly the right book. It was an Oppermann book. The book was in Spanish, which made it more difficult to read. It had strange figures: a monster, a tree and some mountains all printed in blue-green ink. I will try to explain further...

A Moment of Brief but Intense Anxiety (Blog-Interrogative)

Oppermann, are you there? Can you read me? And if you can, do you? And if you do, then how are you?

A list of things to do

1. Relate the issue of Friendship to its shadow: afraid
2. discuss C.G. Jung's Memories Dreams and Reflections: "Shooting Siegfried" dream as it relates to the Pri- root of friendship
3. Discuss a passage from Peter Sloterdijk's "Critique of Cynnical Reason" concerning the exhaustion of Robert Musil's "Young Törleß" while trying to read Kant's "Critique of Pure reason" and relate it to the article I wrote on "Der Critiker" also to the issue of "critical mass" in nuclear physics
4. Uncertain
5. Discuss Oppermann's card where he describes his father as a "Seljack" while in London Ca. 2002 (which had been kept stored in the back of "Jung's Memories Dreams and Reflections")

Friendship: an Etymological Unsettling

pri-
To love. Contracted from *pri- (becoming *priy- before vowels).Derivatives include filibuster, friend, and Friday. 1. Suffixed form *priy-o-. a. free, from Old English freo, free, and fron, freogan, to love, set free; b. filibuster, freebooter, from Dutch vrij, free. Both a and b from Germanic *frijaz, beloved, belonging to the loved ones, not in bondage, free, and *frijn, to love. 2. Suffixed (participial) form *priy-ont-, loving. friend, from Old English frond, frond, friend, from Germanic *frijand-, lover, friend. 3. Suffixed shortened form *pri-tu-. a. Siegfried, from Old High German fridu, peace; b. affray, afraid, from Old French esfreer, to disturb, from Vulgar Latin *exfredre, to break the peace, from ex-, out, away (see eghs) + *fridre, to make peace, from Germanic *frithu-, peace; c. Germanic *frij-, peace, safety, in compound *berg-frij- (see bhergh-2). a–c all from Germanic *frithuz, peace. 4. Suffixed feminine form *priy--, beloved. a. Frigg, from Old Norse Frigg, goddess of the heavens, wife of Odin; b. Friday, from Old English Frgedæg, Friday, from Germanic compound *frije-dagaz, “day of Frigg” (translation of Latin Veneris dis, “Venus's day”). Both a and b from Germanic *frijj, beloved, wife. (Pokorny pri- 844.)