Pushed away: Narcissus
“If I stopped performing for one second, you'd notice there's nothing behind it.”
It runs a continuous display of impressiveness over a low, steady judgement against itself, and the display has to keep moving because stopping would let the judgement be heard. The engine is early and complete emotional oversight: a child attended to in body and unmet everywhere else learns that spectacle is the only thing that brings anyone closer. What it asks for is to be witnessed doing nothing impressive at all.
It echoes Shango, the thunder-king of the Yoruba, magnificent in every telling and undone by a disgrace he could not survive being seen in. The form implies a task: to stay in the room once the magnificence has been put down.
What is the "Pushed away: Narcissus" pattern?
It runs a continuous display of impressiveness over a low, steady judgement against itself, and the display has to keep moving because stopping would let the judgement be heard. The engine is early and complete emotional oversight: a child attended to in body and unmet everywhere else learns that spectacle is the only thing that brings anyone closer. What it asks for is to be witnessed doing nothing impressive at all.
What does "Pushed away: Narcissus" sound like when it shows up?
If I stopped performing for one second, you'd notice there's nothing behind it.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Narcissus"?
It echoes Shango, the thunder-king of the Yoruba, magnificent in every telling and undone by a disgrace he could not survive being seen in. The form implies a task: to stay in the room once the magnificence has been put down.
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