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Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity
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onomastic
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(adjective) of, relating to, or consisting of a name or names
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a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships
on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom
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a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships
on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom
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cathexis
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(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea
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It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world
in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)
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It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world
in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)
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inchoate
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just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary
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We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time
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We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time
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attestation
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defined by Ricoeur as the balance of the idem and the ipse: one's belief in oneself, which cannot be verified by empirical evidence or extrinsic proof, but is based in confidence
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Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel
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Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel
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logorrhoea
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a tendency to extreme loquacity
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The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature
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The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature
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