Gift article link. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/style/freud-psychoanalysis.html?unlocked_article_code=Y9w5Zr2n0-oGtFT6uSTKFtxVftzSJSSzM89_ozl4kGQYrW6zv71WYsg8Yr2ub8i9Vw4TCjqGKehmMVlneVu8XEtNNb3AIkHGePiLmFY1MUKNY2qCL35alP_5xC7trUG8jorRWxd50Pbyw06n2q_mGtkGNxNH-zhQ4S38hpY46PV-loYr2OOPP36_fZfR_MxSgU0WlzSaSltrqAdxhd-AlDj6KZ4GDP8gXwBophKMG8iX6enw4nrF_oifK4A36YelrVqd2TXhe2T0HQCJsKYBknHS3XxhP5RWVX5J4FbWjnb2d_lIdm-Ipk3nbU-l8qhxsL-ilMY4ltjfWwtT&smid=url-share

"[F]or Kojève, the ideal of universal equality won through an endless battle for recognition was always an individualist notion that required domination when confronted by otherness. But for Hegel, human freedom could be won only through collectivity by embracing the opacity of otherness that we are constantly confronted with in ourselves, and in the world with others. It is an acceptance of that fact that self-mastery will always remain an illusion." https://aeon.co/essays/the-philosophical-legacy-of-alexandre-kojeve

"Shorter and more elliptical than an essay, the Brazilian crônica is in fact a maddeningly elusive genre. The difficulty lies not so much in identifying the form’s attachment to the mundane (simple prose, wry personal anecdotes, an eye for the odd detail or fleeting character), but in the specific magic dust that transforms minor observations into prose that’s brimming with pathos." https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/the-unbearable-weight-of-levity-clarice-lispector/

"'In Oe’s work…challenges from the past again and again evoke new answers,' noted the Swedish academy when awarding him the Nobel prize for literatur... Mr Oe’s answers have aged better than Mishima’s. Japan is at peace, and drawing closer to former victims such as South Korea. Children with awful medical problems are, by and large, treated with compassion. And the ultra-nationalists who drive around Tokyo bellowing martial slogans are considered faintly ridiculous." https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/03/13/the-legacy-of-oe-kenzaburo-novelist-nobelist-pacifist

RIP Kenzaburō Ōe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/books/kenzaburo-oe-dead.html

Wow. Been gone a minute. How's everyone doing on this site?