useful idea from renaissance reading
Feb. 28th, 2009 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabeth"in spite of these historical changes, the psychological dynamics of unrequited love remained the same. The urge to idealize and the desire for satisfaction remained in a tense co-existence, and both continued to attach themselves to unattainable objects. Genre, because it is both conservative and progressive, mediates between the social change and the unchanged psychological impulses. The English sonneteers adjust the formal structure of the genre to incorporate changed attitudes towards women, love and sexuality."
it's not just unrequited love that's a psychological dynamic that stays the same even when society changes. So right now I'm wondering if this has something to do with what was being called 'unoriginality' in Science Fiction. The kind of social changes that the 20th century lived through were huge and kept on heading into new areas, and it could easily be that society was changing faster than individuals so fiction was used and needed to help mediate and smooth the change. Is that still true? Are there new huge changes, or is it more that existing changes just keep rolling out? So fiction would be dealing with the same things, on different scales, rather than with huge new things.
don't know. thought needs poking. I write it down and go read the other 6 pages.
it's not just unrequited love that's a psychological dynamic that stays the same even when society changes. So right now I'm wondering if this has something to do with what was being called 'unoriginality' in Science Fiction. The kind of social changes that the 20th century lived through were huge and kept on heading into new areas, and it could easily be that society was changing faster than individuals so fiction was used and needed to help mediate and smooth the change. Is that still true? Are there new huge changes, or is it more that existing changes just keep rolling out? So fiction would be dealing with the same things, on different scales, rather than with huge new things.
don't know. thought needs poking. I write it down and go read the other 6 pages.