Comments on: Furniture Design: A beautiful buffet and my sanity http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/ For a well-considered visual environment Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Currently on view at MOBIA « The Aesthetic Elevator http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/#comment-8188 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:53:38 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/#comment-8188 [...] JBU Gallery. This show apparently features vintage airline posters. Not as sad as missing out on the buffet, but still a [...]

]]> By: TAE http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/#comment-8123 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:27:51 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/#comment-8123 That’s a new idea to me; of course, I’m not a psychologist by any stretch of the imagination, and am not sure I have much respect for Freud. From what I remember of him (which, being not intersted in psychology in this way, isn’t much), he tended to sexualize everything — and apparently this is what cathexis is as well, a part of life from a sexual point of view.

Sex is a wonderful and incredible part of humanity, but humanity does not revolve around sex in the way that Hollywood, and perhaps Freud, so often suggest.

And for what it’s worth, I’m basically over the loss of the buffet. It took about 48 hours, and I was truly sad, but I’m not fighting off any melancholy related to the furniture any longer.

]]> By: Marylyn http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/#comment-8120 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:57:27 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/08/27/furniture-design-a-beautiful-buffet-and-my-sanity/#comment-8120 I sympathize, but may I suggest that your feelings about the beautiful object might actually be feelings about many other things in your life, and could be “cathecting,” I think is the Freudian term, around that object. I have been through this about a run-down house with possibilities that was the equivalent of free (it was being offered to us at a very low price because the woman took a shine to us and wanted to get rid of the property to spite a nephew). We were new to real estate and the way people respond about it, and made a wrong request, and lost the opportunity. I felt for weeks afterward as if I’d lost a treasured dream. We eventually did buy a house, but it was not the same. My capacity to feel that way about a house seemed to have been exhausted by that incident, and I think I’m the better for it. More considered and even indifferent in my “lust” for material things. I still have pangs about a guitar I lost and books I’ve given away, though.

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