Beautiful Quote by Philip Kitcher

Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived…

— Philip Kitcher

I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context…

— Philip Kitcher

Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in…

— Philip Kitcher

Mannix got emotionally involved. He was not above being taken advantage of.

— Mike Connors

Aschenbach is not only a projection of Mann in the obvious ways - same daily routines, author of the works Mann had planned -…

— Philip Kitcher

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his…

— Philip Kitcher

“MANN – WAS – MANN –”

— Christopher J. Nolan

I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face of his…

— Philip Kitcher

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He’d desperately wanted a boyfriend to lavish with affection and attention. He’d longed to know what it felt like, smelled like, tasted like to…

— Thorny Sterling

“In Freud’s account, the male superego is established under the threat of castration anxiety, which forces the boy to abandon his oedipal ambitions, but…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“the guy had the personality of a mannequin. But”

— I.T. Lucas