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For future reference:

Samuel Weber, "Upsetting the Setup: Remarks on Heidegger's 'Questions After Technics,'" in Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media

Martin Heidegger, "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics," in Introduction to Metaphysics second edition

Martin Heidegger, "The Thing," in Poetry, Language, and Thought, trans. Albert Hofstader

Jacques Lacan on Heidegger's jug in "The Thing" mistranslated as a "vase," in The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, "Chapter IX: Creation Ex Nihilo," 115-27; to p. 120

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (dir. Todd Haynes, 1987)

Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman (2016)

Jean Paul Richter, "(Pre)School for Aesthetics"

Child's Play: Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle standard edition (1919; "Fort / Da" discussion)

Ernst Jentsch, "The Uncanny";

Jacques Lacan on Freud's "The 'Uncanny'" and E.T.A. Hoffman's The Devil's Elixir in Anxiety Seminar X (translated 2015). See the second chapter.

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Walter Woodburn Hyde, "The Prosecution of Animals and Lifeless Things in the Middle Ages and Modern Times" (1916)

Jean-Paul Richter, Merry Masterkin Maria Wutz Idyll

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Plurale tantum [Latin: only in the plural] – If society is truly one of rackets, as a contemporary theory teaches, then its truest model is precisely the opposite of the collective, namely the individual [Individuum] as monad. By pursuing the absolutely particular interest of every single individual, the essential nature [Wesen] of the collective can be most precisely studied, and it requires no great leap to decipher the organization of the various conflicting drives under the primacy of the reality-oriented ego from the beginning as an innervated band of robbers with a leader, followers, ceremonies, oaths, oath-breaking, interest-conflicts, intrigues and all the other paraphernalia. One need only observe outbreaks, in which the individual [Individuum] reacts energetically against the environment, as for example rage. The enraged always seem to be their own gang-leaders, whose unconscious has received the command to strike mercilessly, and from whose eyes gleams the satisfaction of speaking for the many, which they indeed are. The more someone is taken up with their aggression, the more perfectly they represent the repressing principle of society. In this sense, perhaps more than in any other, the rule applies: that which is most individual would be the most general.

Plurale tantum. - Wenn wirklich, wie eine zeitgenössische Theorie lehrt, die Gesellschaft eine von Rackets ist, dann ist deren treuestes Modell gerade das Gegenteil des Kollektivs, nämlich das Individuum als Monade. An der Verfolgung der absolut partikularen Interessen des je Einzelnen läßt sich das Wesen der Kollektive in der falschen Gesellschaft am genauesten studieren, und wenig fehlt, daß man die Organisation der auseinander weisenden Triebe unter dem Primat des realitätsgerechten Ichs von Anbeginn als eine verinnerlichte Räuberbande mit Führer, Gefolgschaft, Zeremonial, Treueid, Treubruch, Interessenkonflikten, Intrigen und allem anderen Zubehör aufzufassen hat. Man muß nur einmal Regungen beobachten, in denen das Individuum energisch gegen die Umwelt sich geltend macht, wie etwa die Wut. Der Wütende erscheint stets als der Bandenführer seiner selbst, der seinem Unbewußten den Befehl erteilt, dreinzuschlagen, und aus dessen Augen die Genugtuung leuchtet, für die vielen zu sprechen, die er selber ist. Je mehr einer die Sache seiner Aggression auf sich selbst gestellt hat, um so vollkommener repräsentiert er das unterdrückende Prinzip der Gesellschaft. In diesem Sinn mehr vielleicht als in jedem anderen gilt der Satz, das Individuellste sei das Allgemeinste.

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia:

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Heimito Von Doderer, The Merowingians, or, the Total Family

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Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M Manifesto

Arthur Schopenhauer and Stoicism in The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, p. 113 and following.

Thinking on Auto-Pilot:

"The man who thinks for himself learns the authorities for his opinions only later on, when they serve merely to strengthen both them and himself; while the book-philosopher starts from the authorities and other people’s opinions, therefrom constructing a whole for himself; so that he resembles an automaton, whose composition we do not understand."

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Thinking for Oneself"

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Noise and Silence"

Seneca, On Anger

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Victor Emerita smashing his locked writing desk in Soren Kierkegaard's Either / Or

Ludwig Binswanger, "Extravagance" (trans. 1963)

My dear reader . . . I pronounce the matchless prophecy that
two-thirds of the book’s few readers will quit before they are halfway
through, which can also be expressed in this way—out of boredom they
will stop reading and throw the book away. . . . My dear reader--but
to whom am I speaking? Perhaps no one is left at all. . . . Alas,
alas, alas! How fortunate that there is no reader who reads all the
way through, and if there were any, the harm from being allowed to
shift for oneself when it is the only thing he wishes, is, after all,
like the punishment of the men of Molbo who threw the eel into the
water. Dixt [I have spoken].

Soren Kierkegaard, "Letter to the Reader from Frater Taciturnus” in
Stages on Life's Way