Labyrinth of Solitude

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Labyrinth of Solitude

• Part II

What we desperately need is a concrete solution,
one that will give meaning to our presence on
earth. (p. 168-69)
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The
falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall
apart the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is
loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is
loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence
is drowned The best lack all convictions, while
the worst Are full of passionate intensity. . .
W.B. Yeats. The Second Coming (1920)
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Mexican History (pp.166-173)

• As search (p. 166)
• Form and substance were one (p. 166)
• An effort to break free
• Liberalism, Revolution, universality (pp. 167-68)
• No center (p. 170)
• The naked universal (p. 171-73)

Matthias Goeritz. El cuadro de los cuadros
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8. Present Day

• To be oneself . . . (p.175)
• Community (p. 175)
• Mexican history and economy (pp. 175-192)
• What can we do? (pp. 192-94)
• Contemporaries of all mankind. (p. 194)

Orozco. Modern Human Sacrifice.
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• dialectic, dialectics
• the art of investigating or discussing the truth
  of opinions.
• enquiry into metaphysical contradictions and
  their solutions.
• the existence or action of opposing social
  forces, concepts, etc

("dialectic n. The Concise Oxford English
Dictionary. Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus
Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford
Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Irvine
Valley College. 21 November 2005.
http//www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?su
bviewMainentryt23.e15212)
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9. Dialectic of Solitude

• Solitude . . . (pp. 195-96)
• What we ask of love . . . (pp. 196-97)
• Woman (pp. 197-98)
• Marriage (pp. 198-200)
• Echoes of Freud (p.201)
• Modern man (p. 204)
• Solitude, nostalgia, the myth of the labyrinth
  (p. 208)
• On Time (p. 209)
• On myths (pp. 211-212)

Y Tu Mama Tambien Dir. Alfonso Cuaron