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Monica Carroll

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A blue tailed coat, yellow waist-coat and trousers with high boots

by Monica Carroll on 23/09/201909/09/2019

What do you think of Werther? No matter what you think, by page’s end you will know him.

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Fiction, Goethe, Pain, Writer, Writing

Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing

by Monica Carroll on 29/07/201923/07/2019

Do you cry? Or weep? Or sob?

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Pain, Poetry, Value, Writer, Writing

If experience ruptures your philosophy of life let writing be your constant

by Monica Carroll on 09/07/201903/07/2019

What do you do when it hurts too much?

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Change, Dionysius, Pain, Philosophy, Trust, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

The energy of dislike

by Monica Carroll on 03/06/201929/05/2019

Write what is forbidden and set yourself free.

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Disgust, Pain, Philosophy, Trust, Writer's block, Writing

Epistemological concussion and masochism

by Monica Carroll on 04/01/201904/01/2019

Can knowledge and experience ever reflect each other?

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Masochism, Pain, Sadism, Seeing, Writing

Why did we hurt sadism?

by Monica Carroll on 31/12/201831/12/2018

What must phenomenology do to be able to see past difficult cultural frameworks to the experience of things themselves?

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Description, Fiction, Imagination, Pain, Sadism, Writing

Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?

by Monica Carroll on 26/11/201824/11/2018

To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.

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Description, Husserl, Pain, Phenomenology, Writing

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