"Originality" as originating in the inscrutable depths of the unconscious mind, as opposed to the inscrutable depths of culture.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing if you are looking for the origin of this, it’s the Romantic movement circa 1800 I believe1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness reading too much Marshall McLuhan so I'm dating everything to Gutenberg in my mind2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing moveable type enabled cult of author? but I don’t think there was an unconscious before Romantics1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing I meant no concept/theory of unconscious, so the idea that art came from there couldn’t exist.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness ah ok - I was thinking no separation, in Keith Johnstone's conception of the artist as bring forth from elsewhere2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing not expert on this, but think art came only from without until Rs.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness dammit why isn't there just one giant book explaining the history of consciousness1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Charles Taylor’s _Sources of the Self_, probably. Does cover Romantics. But it’s 900pp and supposedly very hard going.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@sarahdoingthing I keep thinking “I really had better read that” and then I look again and say “only if I get a 900-year lifespan”
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@sarahdoingthing Probably better starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism#Defining_Romanticism …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 2 more replies
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