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Hi
Bob:
I appreciate your sincere
answer to my questionnaire. And I would like to tell you that I agree with
you in several of your opinions. I don't like the way most
freudians have treated matters concerning music, art and
literature. I find that Freud was dealing with his own invention
(psychoanalysis) and he made some good essays related to art.
And if you read some of the seminars Jacques Lacan (a french
psychoanalyst) gave during the 60/70's , you will find a new point of view
concerning art.
I am not trying to
psychoanalyse GG. It is impossible and inoperant. I consider that GG is someone
who might say pretty good things about life and the way he
treated sound, public, and body, so as to open a good deal
of questions. That is the purpose I intend to place in my
seminar. I am not interested in understanding GG, only to hear what
he has to say.
I enjoy GG music; I played
classic guitar , sang in choirs and I also composed (long ago) . I
am trying now to learn a little of piano, so to feel that marvelous
instrument. And besides all this, I consider Glenn Gould,... a friend of mine.
(I have a small bunch :Marcel Duchamp; Salvador Dali; Jorge Luis Borges,
among others )
Thanks for your
letter.
Mario Betteo
Barberis
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De: Elmer Elevator <bobmer@javanet.com> Para: Mario Betteo <symbto@INFOVIA.COM.AR> Fecha: Domingo 2 de Julio de 2000 01:40 Asunto: Re: questionnaire BOB MERKIN wrote: Hi --
Forgive my candor, but I really don't think it's humane or appropriate for a psychoanalyst to delve into matters of music, art or literature. I know that psychoanalysts have often done this. But nothing of insight or importance has ever resulted. Enjoy Glenn Gould's music as a civilized man. If you need to do more about music, play or compose your own music. Don't psychoanalyze human creativity. You can only diminish and tear down creative inspiration which is essentially beyond science; it is a kind of inexplicable magic. If you were to succeed in some kind of pragmatic understanding of the creative impulse, your colleagues would only use it to identify the creative impulse in children and stamp it out. Bob Merkin Mario Betteo wrote: HI; I am a lacanian psychoanlyst , actually giving a seminar concerning music and psychoanalysis. I decided to study Glenn Gould since I believe that he is someone I can call a "teacher" (in the plain sense of the word, someone who had something to say, to transmit to musicians and non-musicians). So I am deeply interested in knowing other's oppinions concerning this point. That is the reason I am sending a small questionnaire to anyone would like to give its point of view. QUESTIONNAIRE |