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Francis Levy Biography

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Francis Levy, born on March 12, 1948, is an accomplished author known for his profound insights and unique narrative style. His works span various genres, earning him recognition for their emotional depth and thematic richness.

Fearlessness Shelley American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Book:Seven Days in Rio

Source: Seven Days in Rio

“Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imagination. In essence, we're all sex tourists. I've never been to Rio and I've never been to a psychoanalytic convention, but in a sense, Rio is symbolic of desire, some sort of ultimate ecstasy.”

Mind Desire Imagination Fantasy Ultimate Sexuality Mythology Ecstasy Psychoanalytic

Author:Francis Levy

“If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.”

Pleasure Virtue Conscious Compromise Being Human

Author:Francis Levy

“Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive society.”

Reality Imagination Nightmare

Author:Francis Levy

“I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual urges that you then have to deal with. I'm like a Frankenstein of analysis. I'm able to go back and forth between the world I've created inside of myself and the real world, which is something I think a lot of people who write and paint and make art do.”

People Thinking World Writing Art Real Paint Unconscious Real World Forbidden

Author:Francis Levy

“I haven't had a drink for 24 and a half years, so I don't live the kind of life anymore where I literally take mind altering substances, or do things in which I am able to forgo reality. I have the potential to be an enormously repressed individual in the guise of a freewheeling spirit.”

Mind Kind Reality Spirit Individual Drink

Author:Francis Levy

“I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.”

Thinking Men Sexuality Ashamed Imperfection

Author:Francis Levy

“All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.”

World Writing Reality Struggle

Author:Francis Levy

“I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Desire Liberation Mask Oblivion

Author:Francis Levy

“Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.”

Thinking Accepting Impossible Strive Vulnerability Imperfection Narcissistic Megalomania

Author:Francis Levy

About the Author

Born: March 12, 1948
Known for: Author
Quotes: 10

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