tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787068930689009818.post9201318678211962022..comments2023-03-20T05:46:12.334-07:00Comments on The Art of Pathography - A Thematic Analysis of the Photographic Self-Portrait : Blake Morrison QuoteAbstracthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461698577970453456noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787068930689009818.post-41533940245838329652011-09-02T03:36:07.491-07:002011-09-02T03:36:07.491-07:00This is a powerful and interesting quote but it...This is a powerful and interesting quote but it's problematic (like everything when you think critically about it). When you post something written by someone else it will be much better if you analyse it or just comment on it each time. Think about your reader(s) and explain to them how the quote is relevant to your PhD thesis. Also think critically about the quote - what objections might there be to this? Why might it be problematic? Never assume that the reader will find the quote as sympathetic as you do - academics are trained to look sceptically at arguments, not to just accept them at face value. For instance, Morrison seems to be implicitly working with an idea of (Jungian?) archetypes. Other readers might take issue with the idea of archetypes (they are perilously close to social stereotypes sometimes, for instance) and can be used as ways of NOT thinking about social roles and the economic/social relations that shape them. Remember that one powerful argument in favour of studying theory is that everything is underwritten by some kind of theory or other (in this case, archetypal theories of human subjectivity and particular theories about the relation of the photograph to reality). Theorists argue that most of us are in denial about our reliance on unconscious theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com