Thing and Object

I am going to construct a “Thing”

Finding feathers close to home

Broken objects

Broken head

There is another baby inside my mind

Thing and Object

The depressed narcissist mourns not an Object but the Thing.

Let me posit the “Thing” as the real that does not lend itself to signification, the center of attraction and repulsion, seat of the sexuality from which the object of desire will become separated.

Of this Nerval provides a dazzling metaphor that suggests an insistence without presence, a light without representation: the Thing is an imagined sun, bright and black at the same time. “It is a well-known fact that one never sees the sun in a dream, although one is often aware of some brighter light.”

Gérard de Nerval, Aurelia, in Selected Writings, trans. Geoffrey Wagner (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957), p. 130.
–Kristeva, Black Sun, “Psychoanalysis–A Counterdepressant”

Albrecht Dürer, Left Wing of a Blue Roller, c. 1500 or 1512, watercolor and gouache on vellum, heightened with white, 19.6 x 20 cm (7 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.), Albertina, Vienna https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/albrecht-duerer/

I am a happy little birdie to have 
my work 'Symbolic Invalidation' 
accepted for 
The Society of Women Artists 
158th Annual Exhibition 
at The Mall Galleries,
London, SW1.

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