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iceinyourmusicA: mirror of erised
1. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. ... It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
1a. How does that work with the Buddhist notion of desire?
1b. How does that work with the psychoanalytical notion of desire?
1c. What's with Buddhism and psychoanalysis, anyway? Discuss.
2. Does the Mirror of Erised lie to your face? Why wouldn't it? I mean, doesn't everybody?
B: polyjuice
Uh, who were Crabbe and Goyle changing into? American exchange students?
1. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. ... It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
1a. How does that work with the Buddhist notion of desire?
1b. How does that work with the psychoanalytical notion of desire?
1c. What's with Buddhism and psychoanalysis, anyway? Discuss.
2. Does the Mirror of Erised lie to your face? Why wouldn't it? I mean, doesn't everybody?
B: polyjuice
Uh, who were Crabbe and Goyle changing into? American exchange students?
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Date: 2005-10-20 05:17 pm (UTC)The one that serves Dumbledore's wacky schemes best?
- heh, I hadn't actually given the whole thing this much thought, but. You have an excellent point about the psych-out, and also how creepy would that be? gaaah. - and, yes, everything and everyone in the HP-land lying to you anyway was sort of my only reason of wondering in the first place. Not that it's how I read the Mirror in the books (can't think of any examples of it lying per se, but then the HP canon really isn't my forte) - but I wonder about the possibility.
On the other hand, first, yes to the skipping over years of therapy (okay, now even that sounds really skeevy to me) - but also, you know, the psychoanalytical notion (to simplify and distort the matter like whoa, I suppose) that 1) desire can't (mustn't) cease and 2) that the object of desire is never-obtainable sort of by definition - and then that bit about the "happiest man on earth" - and also is what the Mirror shows really the deepest desire, as opposed to what it can catch hold of the easiest? I don't know, the whole thing just confuses my little brain a lot. :)