
Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
Hardcore Literature
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The Anxiety of Influence
bloom spoke endlessly about the greek idea of agon competing for top prize this was a lesson perhaps he learned about first from nicha. Tomos man speaking about infantilism or regression to childhood and how that has such an incredible indelible inextricable effect influence one might say on the shape of our lives writes the following. The anxiety of influence is blooms own comprehension of what froyd found in the great writers what froyd discovered in dozdoyevsky and shakespeare and sophocles.
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