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From Arnold Schoenberg

“Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas - one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration.” ["Lacan's name for what occurs at the end of the psychoanalytic cure is traversing the fantasy. But since what the fantasy does, for Lacan, is veil from the subject his/her own implication in and responsibility for how s/he experiences the world, to traverse the fantasy is to reavow subjective responsibility."]

“You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together.” ["The medium is the message" -- McLuhan] ["A formalism which ceases to be external since the form is the innate development of the concrete content itself."--Hegel]

(Arnold Schoenberg)