I am no flatterer. You’ve supped full of flattery.
They say you like it too;’tis no great wonder.
He whose whole life has been assault and battery
At last may get a little tired of thunder
And swallowing eulogy much more than satire, he
May like being praised for every lucky blunder,
Called saviour of the nations – not yet saved,
And Europe’s liberator – still enslaved.
Reklam
Sigmund Freud takes the argument to its furthest reach in Moses and Monotheism by suggesting that Moses himself was a priest in the cult of Aton who converted the Israelites to the new faith after the Egyptians repudiated the dead pharaoh. “The man Moses, the liberator and lawgiver of the Jewish people, was not a Jew but an Egyptian,” proposes Freud. “Moses conceived the plan of finding a new people, to whom he could give the religion that Egypt disdained.”
But what we do know, certainly, is how wonderfully varied languages can be, in the categories they make explicit, in the kinds of words distinguished, in how their speakers talk in general about their world. That, just in itself, is a great eye-opener and mind-liberator.
Simone de BeauvoirKadın ve Erkek
Dreaming of himself as donor, liberator, redeemer, man still desires the subjection of woman.
To conquer is still more fascinating than to give gifts or to release.
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping Beauty?
Reklam