ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Death Drive
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Desire for clare to be a part of a black community. Encounter : latin incontrare; an adversary to confront in battle - conflict/tension/something you"re going to have to deal with -> set something into motion. Not necessarily an encounter with a person (could be face to face with reality) - encounter between irene and a letter. Face a problem or challenge; realization to be faced despite not being ready. Need to face it rather than you want to face it. Letter: something that is out there and out of place/not routine but dangerous to irene. Irene"s relationship to doing anything out of the ordinary is automatically dangerous. Directly goes to this letter which was the last in the pile. Main focus for irene; more important problem for her. Clare = thought of as an object that people engage with because she"s beautiful etc. Alien who is going interrupt irene"s clearly defined boundaries.
