Who Knows
What Evil Lurks…
The brain-in-a-jar on the cover of the new Pearl Jam album "Backspacer" (previous two entries) is apparently there because of a song on the album, "Unthought Known"–
"All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?"
The song title is from a book, The Shadow of the Object (Columbia U. Press, 1987), by psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas.
The "unthought known" phrase has been quoted widely by second-rate psychologizers and by some not so second-rate. Their lucubrations suggest that sinking brain-worshippers should seek a…
The couch is from a 2002 exhibit
at London's White Cube gallery.
at London's White Cube gallery.