Schizoid Personality Disorder is the Apollonian affliction while Borderline Personality Disorder is the Dionysian disease. It's incredible to me how these present themselves in such stark contrast, even though they seem to loop back in upon one another at times.
The schizoid is unfeeling. The borderline overfeeling. The schizoid is passive, the borderline active, the schizoid has himself and nothing else while the borderline has everyone but herself. The schizoid, of course being overwhelmingly masculine while the borderline is overwhelmingly feminine. Yet there is a tension within both of these illnesses. In the schizoid it is the tension between needing to be needed and needing to be independent. In the borderline it is the tension between needing to be independent yet fearing the degree isolation this may bring so horribly that she throws herself into the flames rather than facing it.
Both of these beings are severely unbalanced, of that there is little doubt. The ways in which they seek balance are what intrigues me. The borderline, being the active spirit flings herself forward into the arms of lovers, into the bottle, and about 10% of the time, into the bullet. The schizoid does no flinging, no rapid action. He plods along at his own pace, meandering aimlessly through a life never lived, always pondering the meaning of life without ever trying to find it.
>herself
I've been diagnosed with BPD, and am male. AMA. Will post story if interested
Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, and apathy.
"lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, and apathy."
Why is the word Schizoid there (relation to Schizophrenia?) it makes it sound so much worse than those labels indicate.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental disorder marked by a pattern of ongoing instability in moods, behavior, self-image, and functioning. These experiences often result in impulsive actions and unstable relationships.
>>8993550
>yfw Anti-Oedipus is just a post-Freudo-Marxist rewrite of the Birth of Tragedy
>tfw you realize how rewarding non-fiction is
>>8992408
What book was it for you?
Not OP but Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Holy fuck, what a brilliantly researched and written book. I think a major turnoff for non-fiction (not counting philosophy) was pop-phil or pop-sci-- this was written like a dry, academic essay, but the information was absolutely fascinating. I read it so closely and so enjoyably that I was able to remember almost the majority of the book since I had read it (2 years ago).
I actually want more like it.
>>8992408
Consider yourself redpilled.
So what happed to the Jordan Peterson vs. Sam Harris podcast?
>>8992086
It will be uploaded in a few weeks according to Peterson.
Who do you think won? My money is on Peterson.
>>8992094
Looking at his tweets it seems neither of them prolly wanted to distantiate themselves from their own set of believes, so im thinking neither of them won
He's too embarrassed to upload it because Harris blew him the fuck out
>Preached against slave mentality
>One must strive for himself to get what he wants in order to become ubermensch.
>IRL got rejected by girls 24/7
>Rejected by Family, moved away on his own.
>Kept getting rejected
>broke down and cried on a fucking horse's shoulder
>lived 11 years of solitude and misery until he died, alone.
No one should listen to a guy who doesn't practice what he preaches
>>8991554
>Kept getting rejected
Sounds to me like he kept striving even after being continually rejected, which is not easy to do.
>>8991576
His sister hated Jews and leftists. You're either trolling or profoundly susceptible to propaganda that was debunked conclusively by the 50s, but either way I doubt you've read much Nietzsche. He really did hate women, though.
>>8991594
who fucking didn't?
I'm fine.
>>8991236
I am easily moved to tears.
I don't know if I should go back again.
I'm going to write every single word that comes to mind and try to make something readable (oh sure) out of it, starting now:
The yeast is ridden in the garment. Yeast retains their rancid funneling which makes me think I need more food in my tummy. Gabriel tried funneling through the yeast yet Yuri was escalated towards radioactive gangrene. Humbly I said, "For you, I see, for me I wanted friends!", shrieking, I stumbled and gave him a blowjob. "Fuck, for me it is yeast!", he said. I never went back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLNQP--af00
God what an obnoxious little fag
what's wrong with her?
why do you care
>I think modern art's almost total pre-occupation with subjectivism has led to anarchy and sterility in the arts. The notion that reality exists only in the artist's mind, and that the thing which simpler souls had for so long believed to be reality is only an illusion, was initially an invigorating force, but it eventually led to a lot of highly original, very personal and extremely uninteresting work.
What the FUCK did he mean by this?
>>8989640
He meant exactly what he said.
OP is a faggot
>>8989640
extremely uninteresting work/10
what the fuck I love Kubrick now?
So /lit/,
How big is your vocabulary and what is your background?
http://testyourvocab.com/
My dad's is 36,000 (we took it together and I only knew one he didn't), and he's read a lot of fiction and studied medicine, natural science and finance.
18,800. Is this good
I dont think this is good
what are some alternative words for "good"
>>8988786
I got 25600. There were a lot of words I recognized but couldn't state a definition for.
I'm a stemfag though.
>>8988786
34,500
Law school grad (top 50 law school), now a high school English teacher
/lit/, what is the best book you have ever read.
And why?
>>8988490
Lolita, because I am obsessed with this one girl, and I can't get to talk to her without looking weird and perverted. I relate a lot to Humbert.
You'll hate me for it. But it was Infinite Jest.
I was ashamed to be seen reading it so I covered it with a Chinese newspaper I found on an airplane in Spain. I carried it everywhere with me, my sneaky cover eventually fell off.
I could always turn to it when I'd had a bad day because it was so fucking long that it seemed like I just read it forever. If I ever had a security blanket, it was that book.
>age
>location
>current book you're reading and how do you like it
>>8987903
20s
murka
melancholy of resistance
it fucking sucks. it's like a bernhard but with nothing good. i'm gonna read simplicissimus instead i guess.
30
Wales
Decline of the West
I'm loving it tbqh, really gets the noggin joggin'
19
USA
On The Edge
I was skeptical of the translation at first but I'm really enjoying the seamless flow of the narrator's toxic ranting
I am dead inside. What should I read to change this?
Nietzsche, Camus, and Dostoyevsky have both failed to do the trick. I see poetry in their words, but they kindle nothing beyond aesthetic appreciation for their ideas, no fire, no change.
Pictured unrelated, but vaguely uplifting.
>>8986735
David Wallace, no joke
>>8986751
Didn't he kill himself?
Listen to some animal collective and beach boys and drop some acid and you'll be born again into the world as a child
Write the first sentence of your novel.
>>8983757
theres already a thread you fucking faggot
>>8983766
two threads in fact
Two bottles laid cracked by and under Pitt's head.
The reading for day 19 is B3 Part 3 Chapter 25 through the end of Book Three, pp. 952-1001.
>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!4QVj1b4B!BMF7h3um_c5qWHQCP_aw6g
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kutuzov_fili.jpg
Painting of Kutuzov at the conference of Filii deciding to surrender Moscow to Napoleon.
The highlights thing is pretty cool. I pictured Kutuzov older in my head, and more injured.
Disappointed Tolstoy didn't go the Inglourious Basterds route and have Pierre repeatedly stab Napoleon to death.
itt we break down a book into one sentence
i'll start:
nietzsche, beyond good and evil
i am one of a few übermenschen, everybody else (especially women) are insufferable idiots.
>>9000330
What I loved most about Nietzsche was how he was a proto-/pol/ack, in terms of redpilled views. He hated semites, blacks, single mothers, women in general, tattoos, piercings, and atheists.
Anyone else think he would've been browsing /pol/ today had he been alive?
>>9000339
that's not the purpose of that thread.
>anon pls
also, yeah, he probably would have.
>>9000339
I feel he would leave in disgust after seeing all the false red-pilled and infiltrators in that board.
Here we discuss the GOAT of GOATs.
My mom loves that book, not even memeing. She insists it's a "great love story" and not just smut.
>>9000003
>iirtbaecrt ottehkob ceporo