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@@okaytoletgo These recordings were made as a reference for me. At the time, I didn't have much of a background in literature so I thought that repetitative listening would be helpful. I used a Sony walkman which was placed on my desk in the middle of the room. I have some fairly sophisticated software that I used in an attempt to isolate Bloom's vocals but there was just not enough Bloom in the original recording to salvage any more than what you hear. May I suggest the use of headphones. That is probably the method which will deliver the most audible rendition of Dr. Bloom.

@@rellman85 Sorry, these tapes are the only record that remains. I have moved about 20 times since 1983. Everything else has been lost in the shuffle.

Thank you Celia. Regards to Toni. I love you both.

That's it! In my youth I was absolutely paralyzed by the intimidation I placed on myself. I may have never submitted that "paper." I remember trying to convert the class to a P/F option. That was not possible as the deadline for that option had passed. I believe that I was allowed to switch to Non-Credit. I recall writing a few pages of the paper and upon review, thinking to myself "I'm putting all the right words on paper but collectively they don'/t mean anything. Bloom is going to see through this charade and I will get the F that I deserve." I have been living with this dread of insufficiency since 1983. But, you, Charles, Have arrived at the solution. To employ a surrogate, who has some deeper level of understanding of the subject matter, and have them write my paper. Any volunteers. LOL. Then I could take this paper and make the pilgrimage to Blooms tomb and submit 41 years late. Even with the "late" penalties factored in, I would probably score higher than my original unfinished work. At the very least we could turn this into an art film. Titled "The Last Paper Submitted to Bloom"

Classic interpretation of the classics. What's not to love. These works will continue define us until Cro-Magnons evolve into some other beings, where the line of inquiry into these texts are no longer relevant to existence. My guess is that we will have long been gone from the earth before that shift occurs. Good to hear from you again, Charles. I hope all is well in your world.

These works and his interpretations can save our souls. Do you have your notes from back then? I think your channel is my favorite or top five on UA-cam. Much is similar but much is different personally. Hope you’re doing well too :)

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@@VigiliusHaufniensis Bloom never had a real idea of his own. he made strained attempts eg anxiety of influence etc but this went no where, nor could it since it was just a bunch of his own arbitrary pronouncements -- vacuous. certainly he could never DEVELOP an idea.there are really no arguments. his books are just one little aperçu after another, interspersed with some opinionated "mots". it s all striking poses, dropping names, going off on this tangent or that, displays of his odd personality and affected mode of expression --"alas" "much the this, much the that" "strong" [what does this mean, really? does it mean good? lol] -- and his own personal preferences. why should all this interest anyone.? he likes to provoke, and make rather arbitrary statements that are really neither here no there [further indication of his essential lack of real ideas] eg the waste land is about repressed suppressed whatever homosexuality etc the four 4s are "in the shadow" or some such of Whitman [absurd -- could this nebbish even READ?], and finally he is a complete BIGOT re Blacks [he attempts to hide this by then overpraising Invisible Man -- its good, but lets be realistic] re non-jews in fact for yes he is an entrenched jewish supremacist [I quote from memory approximately "the most profound spirituality of our time which is jewish spirituality" [so much for everybody else all those monastics allover the world etcI think this is from Agon;] he attempts again to disguise this by universalist/humanitarian ink clouds, but dont be fooled. he has no grasp of philosophy whatever, and seemingly no interest in any other arts. Despite his eccentric renown as some sort of speed-reader and memory savant, his range of reference is actually startlingly limited, if you go through the indexes. all of this might be ok, if it were set out in really first rate prose. but it isn't. his prose esp. in the later books is slovenly. it sounds like he just bloviated into a tape recorder. but even the 1970 book on Yeats is already like that. He is all posturing pretense and odd personality. there's nothing there, really. now re Freud: now freud like bloom likes to display his own odd impressions, make big pronouncements re culture etc; some find this interesting and view him as a profound if "stern" or some such wise man. a "moralist" etc. and some might be interested or moved. I'm not among them, but that's irrelevant. supposedly he is thought of as a great prose writer, but I simply don't see it. to me its all quite dull. now turning away from the belles letters stuff-- certainly he made great contributions to the study of trauma. with regard to dreams and the unconscious -- the. main theoretical idea.here the problem is simple: freud like many scientists then -- and now -- and philosphers too -- think of scientific knowl4dge as needing to establish CONTINUITIES however defined; there is a profound bias toward gradualism, incrementalism; nature does not make leaps etc. therefore freud thought that he had to show how supposedly primitive impulses move in a continuous way up into the higher functions. but nature DOES make leaps. a perfect example is human language. as Chomsky points out, it must have started in a very delimited time period indeed a sudden leap. moreover it has the basic form of a "discrete infinity" as opposed to what calls the "continuous infinitiies" of nature itself. it is mathematically impossible to generate a discrete infinity system by gradual tiny adjustments of a continuous infinity [nature per se] there had to be a quite sudden leap [sudden by evolutionary standards] indeed the two most important things that Chomsky ever says are 1] when he says "you shouldn't talk about language learning you should talk about language growth" ir language is the form the brain takes [during that stage of development] and then 2] when he says that language is unique among scientific objects because it is a discrete infinity -- so you can have a 5 word sentence or a 6 word sentence, but not a 5 1/2 word sentence; we could generate a 10,00 word sentence on a computer, but not 10,000.1567... One could do the equivalent of that with any of the functions of the body, but as soon as one is dealing with language that sort of conceptualization is not possible: 5 words, 6 words. there is never 5.93 words. this is the real dualism that must draw attention. our body is part of the realm of the continuous Infinitis; but the higher faculties of our mind --language [and other functions the are included in it -- natural numbers, musical notes etc] are discrete infinity systems at bottom. we live as humans in two realms -- that of the continuous infinites [biology chemistry physics] and that of the discrete infinity systems. there is a funadmental gap between them a difference which is absolute. Freuds bias is to try to understand the second in terms of the first. but this cannot be done. doubtless our mind has different levels as it were, but the understanding of this must be conceptualized in a fundamentally different way, that respects this basic division I think Lacan was trying to do this, but then he runs into other different problems occasioned by his misuse of Sausure and the pseudo-discipline of semiotics. sorry to run on. lol

Thank you for you thoughts, analysis and opinions. You are always welcome to comment on the other topics in the series. I would probably not spend as much time on commentary and criticism and focus on what could enlighten us who are still alive and thinking. There is, apparently, the product of a lot of grey matter displayed in your comment. It is a shame that one must exist in a world run by the unworthy. Alas, that appears to be the nature of Our shared reality. LOL.

@@damirstrmel9930 an attempt at irony, evidently. quite cumbersome.

@@findbridge1790 a poet, I am not.So please forgive the feeble swipe at your assertions. I am not an apologist for Bloom, but I do respect him for his body of work and his life-long pursuit of opening people's eyes to the joys reading and thinking. Whether you agree with him, or not, is irrelevant, as our lives are circumscribed by our birth and our death. Whether we are right or wrong about a given topic makes little difference to to this hard fact. Said in a more poetic fashion: Accepting death allows you to laugh. Live every day as if it's your last (but, don't spend your money that way). LOL

Bloom's book on the Romantics was life changing!😮

Hello celestialroad. Intrigued by your comment I visited your home page. After scrolling through your catalog, I thought you might like Mr. Bubble, the East Village band from the mid 80s. Here's a link to my favorite, "Around the World" ua-cam.com/video/JyrGFKqV8cI/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared. You can find this and other obscure East Village videos from the 80s in my playlists under "East Village NYC 1980s"

But Bloom isn't 'explaining' Freud through Epicurean Philosophy. He is claiming there is an ancient source to Freud's materialism. That is much more specific, and doesn't preclude a more general claim that Schopenhauer is an important precursor to Freud. The link to Epicurean ideas has to do with the seeming paradox that 'pleasure is a release from excitation' , which Bloom suggests is fundamental to Freud. That is an idea I don't think you'll find in Schopenhauer.

@@teebeedahbow You're wrong. That release of energy came from Fechner and Freud cited him for that. Only Bloom had that "anxiety of Influence" over Freud's sources.

@@teebeedahbow Besides Freud is not all pleasure. His post-war psychology shifted to trauma. Even you don't know the foundation of Freudianism.

@@czarquetzal8344 You have misunderstood Bloom's point. He is NOT saying that Freud's theory of pleasure/excitement comes in some simple way from Epicurus or anyone else for that matter. He is saying it is an essentially Epicurean theory. That is quite a different point. And, the central idea of the anxiety of influence, is that true precursors are unconscious. You may even resist them consciously, but you can't chose them. It is, in fact, a very Freudian theory. Lists of Freud's conscious forebears - those who he may or may not have cited - is a too simple and rather dull project.

@@czarquetzal8344 Neither Bloom nor I claimed Freud was 'all pleasure', whatever that might mean. I wish people would listen and read carefully before commenting.

Are these "uncanny" because you listen to them now and see in your mind's eye a younger version of yourself in the classroom with Bloom. These classes had, maybe 20-30 students max, so the probability that anyone from that class would would run across this is minute. Do you remember the subject matter of your paper? Do you have any anecdotes of personal interactions with Dr. Bloom? I was in awe of the breadth and depth of his knowledge and how he synthesized meaning and interpretation out of that pool.

"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars! Out here, we is stoned....immaculate."

But Stevens was twice his size...😮

Yes this is a video of Kalvert Nelson, who studied at IU. In 1989 he reached out to me to say that he would be interested in playing the outdoor festival in Tompkins Square Park that I was producing. I spoke with him a few times on the phone and met him when he performed at the festival. I believe he is living in Europe now.

Thanks R.C. Lord Kitchener is the stage name for calypsonian Aldwyn Robers. There were alot of guys with stage names beginning with "Lord." Lord Kitchener probably refers to Horatio Herbert Kitchener, an English Earl who was a soldier, war hero, and colonial administrator in Southern Africa, a generation before the singer.

@@damirstrmel9930 Thanks for your reply. I've noticed since writing my comment that the spelling of the name of the Argentina vice president varies from that of the fictive Lord. This adoption of titles is something I'd not suspected. It's helpful to know about this grand practice. As for Calypso music, I recognize it lurking within a lot of traditional Latin music, which I know only casually, like any radio listener. I enjoy your self presentation and am happy to have somehow landed on your channel. Thanks again for your reply.

Perhaps the grad student is a lousy editor (actually my typing has been deteriorating as my PD progresses). I should be more thorough but if one makes errors on things that don't really effect the content of the video, does it matter. If the word "intersting" was interpreted by the reader to be the word "interesting" then the intended communication was successful. However, if the word spelled "intersting" was intended to mean something else, then the observation and interpretation becomes more of a Freudian puzzle. Thanks for pointing out the error.

You are very welcome. There are 9 other classes that I recorded and posted to UA-cam from that Spring 1983 semester (if you have not already found them).

I was gonna say the same thing :/ So unfortunate.

sigh, you're a nimrod

I was an English major.

Anders, sorry about the sound quality. I was in the back half of the lecture hall with a handheld tape recorder. I find it more intelligible with headphones. I don't know if he ever gave this talk again so if a transcript exists it may be in the New School archives.

I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but the text ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, published in the book Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2, is of a very similar lecture given in English in the same month as this

Adding joy to my friends' hearts, one hat at a time. LOL.

Do you have a favorite group/singer/guitarist?

Buena Vista Social Club,than in general Latin musics