Adam deVille on . . well, a lot of things
At Eastern Christian Books, Adam deVille has a long post which brings together a number of themes he has explored on the blog and elsewhere – on lament, on Marx…
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Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”
From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog: In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…
“Fearful of My Joy” – Adam deVille on cooking, feasting and the sacramental
I am running the risk of turning this blog into nothing but reposting of Adam deVille, but I could resist this 2013 post on cooking, feasting, joy, and the sacramental…
“the vulgar and rather infantile things you really do want” – Adam deVille on prayer and psychoanalysis
I have linked before to Eastern Christian Books, the blog of Adam de Ville. One of deVille’s recurrent themes is the unnecessary and unhelpful perceived antagonism between psychoanalysis and religion..…
“someone who is abnormally normal” – Christopher Bollas, Adam deVille, social media, and the “normotic” self
Adam de Ville, who who I have linked to before, has a fascinating post on Christopher Bollas, and how he (deVille) came to an appreciation of the enduring insights of…
Adam deVille on failing to understand Marx and Freud
A month ago I featured long segments from a post by Adam DeVille on the romanticisation of monasticism. Again, here is another post worth reading in full. What makes this post important…
Adam deVille on the romanticisation of monasticism
From a lengthy review of Rod Dreher’s new book “The Benedict Option.” I used to occasionally read Dreher’s blog, and tried his “The Little Way of Ruthie Leming”, but drifted…
The demands of silence
On of the recurrent themes of this blog has been various writings – by others, by myself – on silence. Of course, all this verbal activity on silence carries with…
“silence is open to everyone, literate or illiterate, king or slave, secular or religious, saint or sinner.” from “Silence: A User’s Guide”, Maggie Ross on the work of silence
Having come across her repeatedly in the work of Adam deVille, I am gradually absorbing Maggie Ross’ “Silence: A User’s Guide” There are all too many extracts I would love to share.…
Russian Modernism and Byzantine Iconography – another false dichotomy
A recurrent pattern in the history of ideas is a dominant narrative creating dichotomies that, at the time, did not exist. I have blogged about these before – false tension…
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