Kafka's creative block and the 4 psychological hindrances keeping the talented from manifesting their talent; a physicist on death and the life-force
Through memory we can prolong precious periods of happiness, “keeping the time alive”; through artistic creation and the rearing of children we can make our legacy live on beyond our own death; through community with others, political commitments, and the care for a sustainable society we can extend a sense of purpose far beyond the duration of our
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The Death Instinct: separation, individuality, Avant-Garde par excellence; to follow one’s own path—do your own thing; dynamic change. The Life Instinct: unification; the eternal return; the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species; survival systems and operations, equilibrium.26
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
In the clarity that followed, I discovered another lesson: creation cannot emerge without confronting death. Standing at the edge of the void, something new can be born. In accepting my mortality—both its inevitability and proximity—something within me softened, creating space for something unexpected. Death strips away what no longer serves us, cl... See more
Steven Schlafman • 45: A Year of Death and Creation
The Denial of Death.