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Tell It Again Mom:

Desiring Repetition

 

Structuring pleasure,  structuring narrative, repetition begins again.

The circuit of pleasure, the circle of story—excite, discharge, repeat.

Narrative a machine—fabulous technology—for reproducing pleasure.

Tell me again! Repetition as education. (Narrative as an education in repetition.)

Narration as repetition compulsion. (Forgetting and remembering all the same to story—remembering and forgetting both recruited for repetition.)

The crisis as moment of suspense between satisfaction and disappointment. In the end satisfaction and disappointment come simultaneously, driving repetition in narrative as in desire.

The fantasy of a narrative that ends all narrative. (Another ruse of narrative.)

The inevitable disappointment of satisfaction driving the audience from the end to another beginning.


drop

the

story

 

Sucking thirstily at the teats of story, we all become insatiable infants.

Returning to story for the security of repetition.

Obsessively re-ing, narrative reproduces itself.

The fantasy of a narrative that escapes repetition.

 

The desire for difference and the desire for repetition two sides of the same story.

Repetition in narrative carefully contrived to produce the illusion of difference.

Difference narrative's elusive fetish, repetition's uncanny remainder compelling retelling.

The inherent impossibility of story: narrative strives to recount the uncountable, repeat the unrepeatable.


drop

the

story