Not Working by Josh Cohen

Author:Josh Cohen
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781783782055
Publisher: Granta Publications
Published: 2019-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 ‘Genuine force of habit …’: Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorism, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (London: Penguin, 1976), p. 166.

2 ‘with their feet in mud …’: Georges Bataille, ‘The Big Toe’, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927–1939, trans. A. Stoekl (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985), p. 20.

3 ‘rises in the direction …’: Georges Bataille, ‘The Solar Anus’, ibid., p. 7.

4 ‘“Nothing so aggravates …”’: Herman Melville, ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ (1853), Billy Budd and Other Stories (New York: Signet, 1961), p. 115.

5 ‘I refute it thus!’: James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791), ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: OUP, 2008), p. 333.

6 ‘the compulsion to work’: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. J. Strachey, Volume 21 (London: Vintage, 2001), p. 101.

7 ‘when a love relationship …’: ibid., p. 108.

8 a perversion expresses …: Freud discusses perversion in forensic detail in the first of his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Standard Edition, Volume 7.

9 ‘disinclination to give up …’: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Standard Edition, Volume 21, p. 108.

10 ‘the inertia of the libido’: Strachey translates Freud’s word Trägheit as both ‘inertia’ and ‘sluggishness’.

11 ‘the simplest of all experiences …’: D. W. Winnicott, ‘Creativity and Its Origins’, Playing and Reality (London: Routledge, 1971), p. 80.

12 ‘some mental activity …’: Jonathan Lear, Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 80.

13 ‘nothing is ever fundamentally “off” …’: Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (London: Verso, 2014), p. 13.

14 ‘his normal condition’: Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov (1859), trans. D. Magarshack (London: Penguin, 2005), p. 14.

15 ‘the fairy-tale had become …’: ibid., p. 119.

16 ‘Oblomov would have liked …’: ibid., p. 22.

17 ‘two principles …’: Sigmund Freud, ‘Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning’, Standard Edition, Volume 12.

18 ‘a numbness, a despondency …’: Pierre Saint-Amand, The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment, trans. J. C. Gage (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), p. 2.

19 ‘the necessity of doing’: ibid., p. 3.

20 the author of Jacques the Fatalist …: Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist (1796), trans. D. Coward (Oxford: OUP, 2008).

21 ‘one of the weirdest characters …’: Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew (1805), trans. L. Tancock (London: Penguin, 1976), p. 23.

22 ‘an idler, greedy …’: ibid., p. 123.

23 ‘worthy use …’: ibid., p. 64.

24 ‘drink good wine …’: ibid., p. 65.

25 ‘you … are not even capable …’: ibid., p. 70.

26 ‘Whatever produces …’: Schopenhauer, Essays, p. 61.

27 ‘seems to be subjected …’: Maurice Blanchot, ‘Literature and the Right to Death’, trans. L. Davis, The Work of Fire (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).

28 ‘Sovereign Man’: Bataille writes that this man’s sovereignty ‘destines him, in a privileged way, to that glorious operation, to useless consumption’, The Accursed Share, Volume 1, trans. R. Hurley (Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 1991), p. 23.

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