September 24, 2009
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Aesthetics for King, continued:
Who Knows
What Evil Lurks...The brain-in-a-jar on the cover of the new Pearl Jam album "Backspacer" (previous two entries) is apparently there because of a song on the album, "Unthought Known"--
"All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?"The song title is from a book, The Shadow of the Object (Columbia U. Press, 1987), by psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas.
The "unthought known" phrase has been quoted widely by second-rate psychologizers and by some not so second-rate. Their lucubrations suggest that sinking brain-worshippers should seek a...
The couch is from a 2002 exhibit
at London's White Cube gallery.
