Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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elision

'symptomatic' places in the dream-text--distortions, ambiguities, absences and elisions

—p.182 Psychoanalysis (151) by Terry Eagleton
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sibylline

Lacan's own notoriously sybilline style, a language of the unconscious all in itself

thought this meant something to do with the letter s lol

—p.169 Psychoanalysis (151) by Terry Eagleton
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cathexis

Auto-eroticism must thus be distinguished from what Freud will call 'narcissism', a state in which one's body or ego as a whole is 'cathected', or taken as an object of desire.

—p.154 Psychoanalysis (151) by Terry Eagleton
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portentous

recommend various brands of portentous mysticism as the solution to human ills

—p.147 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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anodyne

the saturation of the reading public by a 'mass', profit-hungry, anodyne culture

—p.140 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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