Comments on: What We Hoard

By: Ben Leib

Ben Leib — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:52:04 +0000

I also think that hoarders confuse the line between inner and outer, between the psychological and the material, so that they come to believe that the emotions which have been divested into the objects around them become synonymous with the objects themselves. Therefore, they believe that they might create a legacy through the artifacts that they’ve saved, and, conversely, that destroying these objects also destroys a part of an owner.

By: reinhardtsuarez

reinhardtsuarez — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:23:58 +0000

Thank you for reading and commenting! It’s a tough thing, existentially, to constantly bombard ourselves with increasingly anonymous voices proclaiming how much we suck. If you haven’t caught it yet, go back and read Sophie’s original. And stay tuned for Joshua Covell’s take on hoarding as well.

By: inquitdoria

inquitdoria — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:53:40 +0000

“Totemism is how we overcome the despair of anonymity and rejection. ”
Love this line. Love your point of view.