English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Puritans, Martin Heidegger, Thought Experiment
9 Apr 2016
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A link between this moment in history and 1980s england. It was an incredibly, radically culturally conservative government. Saw them as transgression and plan of upheaval, threatened by them. Government that crushed any form of economic existence. Winterson is wondering what life is like under these regimes. To have your desires negated by the government. Freud: you cannot ever successfully repress anything. It will come back at some level. Sees energy as very hard to kill. They will come back and in bigger form. The dogwoman is an example of this. Sexing the cherry itself is a critique of the ideologies of thatcher"s regime. Exploring what happens when you live under these regimes. 17th and 20th century, from winterson"s point of view, are not different. There is a repetition and continuum at work. An inevitability to this kind of system. There will always be a response to it. And art is the place where resistance can be made.
