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Click to viewalanna: WELL I'VE BEEN WORKING ON MY THESIS SINCE 1:30.
Bri: How is that going for you? I am not helping by constantly FB-ing you.....
alanna: I'm almost done doing a read/edit through. Now it's just doing any additional reading, new thoughts, titles, that kind of stuff.
Bri: OHHHH. Good luck with that! When are you supposed to finally be done with it?
alanna: lmao TOMORROW.
Bri: Well, at least you will be done with everything then!!!! And we can really party it up this weekend (with ice cream)! PARTYING, PARTYING, YEAH!
alanna: Well my defense is next week :P FUN FUN FUN FUN
Bri: Want to know a song that is just as bad as that one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwT_2QQU64
alanna: WHY DO YOU DO THIS
Bri: Just consider it an update on the terrible aspects of American culture. Or better yet, desperate teenage culture. XD
Bri: Not that it will make you a better person by knowing about it or anything.....
alanna: If I wanted to know more about desperate teenager culture I'd read Twilight.
Bri: Or better yet, watch the movies..... *shudder shudder*
alanna: WE SHOULD DO IT TOGETHER
Bri: And spend half of the time if not more making fun of it. OMG THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!!!!!
alanna: DOESN'T IT? Although we might have to have an alternative, in case we find ourselves unable to continue watching.
Bri: Which will probably happen in all actuality. Especially since there is no good eye candy at all either. I do not care what people say, but Rob Pattinson is NOT HOT. AT ALL.
alanna: He's kind of pasty.
Bri: And gross in general. His acting career should have died with his death as Cedric in HP.
alanna: lmao okay I wouldn't say that yet, since I haven't seen him act.
Bri: Well, we shall watch it together and you will understand EXACTLY what I am saying. JUST WAIT (but do not get excited).
alanna: IS THIS WHAT WE ARE DOING THIS WEEKEND.
Bri: HAHA! Should we do that this weekend? To make it better/easier to watch, we should also get some popcorn and candy! :) Would you like to waste your Sat this way? I am up for it!
alanna: WE CAN DO IT ANY TIME, I AM NOT PICKY.
Bri: HEHE. Then it is a date then!!! :)
alanna: OH MAI I'M GOING ON A DATE!
"What makes an object lovable in the most obsessive way? What makes us compelled to over-estimate it? Narcissism. The narcissist is the one who can transport us away from our standard vision of the day-to-day and convince us that extraordinary things are possible. The narcissist, says Freud... is the one whose satisfaction comes not from loving but from being loved...
The narcissist exudes charisma, in the secular rather than the sacred sense. He needs nothing and no one but himself. The narcissist sends off a glow of sheer inviolability. Nothing gets to hiim. Nothing daunts him. His being is unified, coherent, and composed: the narcissist has transcended all painful self-division; he is never prey to ambiguity and anxiety...
It is magical, the sense of perfection the narcissist brings, and we believe that by gaining the narcissist's love or at least his recognition, we might share in his numinous life...
The narcissist exploits our longing to be bewitched. They enchant us with the possibility that we are the one who will really share in their glow, or break it down and turn them, as though through a reverse enchantment, once again into a common mortal like ourselves. But alas, narcissism in another, which initially is so exhilarating, is over time demoralizing. It provokes despondency, as we recognize that the glowing one doesn't need us at all...
The narcissist is one of Freud's great archetypes, memorable and illuminating. Yet are absolute narcissists to be found in experience? Is it possible that the narcissist is simply an illusion sustained by the lover, the one who wants the old perfect archetypes to reappear in life, and will work to create them out of whatever promising material comes to hand? To Freud, we weave our dreams whenever we have the chance, awake or asleep... Emerson tells us that we create perfection in others by being afraid to own up to our own powers. Not recognizing our particular genius, we project it outside..."
-Mark Edmundson, Introduction to Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud