November 26 2010
"No, bereavement (depression) is different from sickness. What should I be cured of? To find what condition, what life? If someone is to be born, that person will not be blank, but a moral being, a subject of value—not of integration." — Roland Barthes, French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His essays on mourning — his mother having died when he was in his 60’s — have been enlightening and have helped push me further along in understanding my own mother’s death. (last year)
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