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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly  I think we are talking of the same experience but in different contexts. To go really out on a limb, and perhaps trip into psychosis, I sometimes wonder if really strange films and the experience of them are in fact muddled glimpses into the creation of the soul/psyche but we are so far removed from our true selves that the information, images, sounds etc and experiences we receive no longer have any value to us as we struggle to understand them. We are then left with strangeness and for myself a sense of longing for something I have lost but have never known. |
I think that certainly what we're talking about is a transcendance of egoic perception, which is very oriented towards social praxis in a conditioned environment. The whole point of avant garde art was to smash those perceptions and the underlying social process, but any excessive experience can take someone beyond their conditioned responses to the world, to different degrees. Ultra weird culture, whether it be horror, transgressive porn or messed up 'art'. Trauma. Chemicals. Not all the same, but pointing beyond normative perception.
I don't really think of a true self or soul alienated by modernity, but I do feel we have layer upon layer of 'sub-selves' dissolving all the way back into base memories, perceptions, fragments of thought... the unconscious, white light. So I think of anything that disrupts 'the ego' as an eruption or a reorganisation rather than a return to the non-alienated part of ourselves.
Right, back to 'Forced Entry'!