Mark CarriganPeople who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair
From The Evocative Object World by Christopher Bollas pg 63:
Without thinking about it much, when we traverse a city – or walk in our district – we are engaged in a type of dreaming. Each gaze that falls upon an object of interest may yield a moment’s reverie – when we think of something else, inspired by the point of emotional contact – and during our day we will have scores of such reveries, which Freud termed psychic intensities, and which he believed were the stimuli for the dream that night. But as a type of dreaming in their own right, the reveries wrought by evocative objects constitute an important feature of our psychic lives.
People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair, for they are denied the vital need for personal reverie. Each person needs to feed on evocative objects, so-called ‘food for thought’, which stimulate the self’s psychic interests and elaborate the self’s desire through engagement with the world of objects.
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Alun Kirby
