“The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.” GivenDealsNovelConcernPsychologicalRelevantThematic Author:Norman Spinrad
“Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.” ProblemLanguageUnderstandingDealsInfiniteInsightPsychologicalObservationVarietyCollectionsFrozenSpontaneityCandorRepetitiveJargonIdiomFormalityLexicon Author:Richard Rosen
“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.” MeanDoeArtRealityDealsClassStudyExampleAspectPsychologicalInternalsConventionsTotality Book:Collected Works: Do what you will Source: Collected Works: Do what you will
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.” PhilosophySeemsDealsMoralPsychologicalBuddhistSimplestNicetiesBuddhist Philosophy Book:The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata Source: The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata