Recurring Nightmares (Theoretical Inventory Pt. 2)

The nightmare of history primarily manifests to us not something to be intellectually grasped but as the persistence of the past through mood, emotion, and feeling. Experiences of the idyllic, nostalgic past provides ideas and images which catalyze moods of contentment or joyful pleasure – they are analgesic.

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The Nightmare of History (Theoretical Inventory Pt. 1)

This unspoken, unconscious material stays alive in a way much more akin to the way ghosts and the Otherworldly encroach upon the living. It is there haunting us like a grey wraith that manifests as an absence but hovers, eerily flickering, at the edge of experience. It is almost as if we are possessed by it – acting based on the whims of a mysterious, invisible force that is outside of our perception but inescapably powerful.

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