{"id":77,"date":"2014-10-26T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T10:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-06-02T19:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:49:56","slug":"temporary-legendary-psychasthenia-can-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Legendary Psychasthenia Can Occur&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A provocative quotation from the great sur-rationalist Roger Caillois, in a footnote to his 1935 essay \u201cMimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia\u201d:<br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pour ma part, d\u2019ailleurs, si l\u2019on veut r\u00e9duire l\u2019instinct esth\u00e9tique \u00e0 une tendance de m\u00e9tamorphose en objet ou en espace, je ne m\u2019y oppose pas.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;In any event, I myself have nothing against the attempt to reduce the aesthetic instinct to the tendency to become transformed into an object or space.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One admires Caillois\u2019s decision to write \u201ctendance de m\u00e9tamorphose\u201d rather than a mere \u201cd\u00e9sir de m\u00e9tamorphose.\u201d The absence of a qualifying \u201ctemporaire,\u201d however, is troubling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A provocative quotation from the great sur-rationalist Roger Caillois, in a footnote to his 1935 essay \u201cMimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia\u201d: Pour ma part, d\u2019ailleurs, si l\u2019on veut r\u00e9duire l\u2019instinct esth\u00e9tique \u00e0 une tendance de m\u00e9tamorphose en objet ou en espace, je ne m\u2019y oppose pas. &#8220;In any event, I myself have nothing against the attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}