Daniel Oppenheimer:
CLASS OF 1998
Yale Summer High SchoolClass of 1998
New haven, CT
Daniel's Story
Daniel is from Springfield, Massachusetts. Daniel's schools include Yale Summer High School. Daniel later attended Yale University (Religious Studies) , Yale University. Daniel works(ed) at The University Of Texas At Austin.
Music Daniel likes includes Elle King, Bob Dylan, Mumford and Sons. Books Daniel likes include Good Reads. TV shows Daniel likes include Project Runway.
One of Daniel's favorite quotes is:"âEvery morning, when I was in the sixth grade at Santa Monica Elementary, we stood beside our desks, stared at the flag, and, under the baton of Ms. Veronica Chavez, sang âAmerica the Beautiful.â La Chavez sang the official line: 'Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain' ⦠We sang our own countertext, a paean to beauty in its presence: 'Oh beautiful for gracious thighs, for amber babes of Spain'
⦠It was a puerile encomium, but I have not forgotten the pride we took in our collective poiesis as we sang out, 'Veronica, Veronica, God shed his gaze on thee' â¦And I have yet to discover a contemporary whose class bards did not invent their own customized lyrics to be sung to this tuneânone as euphonious as ours, of course. In any case (probably thanks to the Second Continental Congress), we all felt deserving of our own aesthetic. We could agree on 'Oh beautiful for' but would complete the sentence, in meter, to taste. Each of us asserted our own b...Expand for more
rand of beauty as a privilege of citizenship, as an icon of happiness, and we intended to pursue it.â
Dave Hickey, âAmerican Beautyâ
"In a successful psychoanalysis, free speech becomes possible. I can begin to speak for myself. And I can begin to speak for myself because, in psychoanalytic conversation, I have constituted myself. In my neurosis, I existed in disharmonious bits--and my sense of psychic unity was, to a significant degree, self-deception. The aim of psychoanalysis is not to promote homogenization of the soul but to establish active lines of communication between what hitherto had been disparate and warring parts. These lines of communication serve a bridging function--uniting the psyche by bringing its different voices into a common conversation. Conflicts will still arise. It is a condition of life itself that the psyche will never be a conflict-free zone. But when they do arise they will be experienced as conflicts--rather than in some disguise. A I will have developed the practical skill of genuinely speaking for myself when I come to do a decision on how to deal with the conflict. Psychoanalytically understood, free speech is correlative with my ability to take responsibility for myself. For I am now responsive to myself in ways that eluded me before; and thus when I take a stand in speech or action, it is I who take the stand."
-Jonathan Lear, "Freud"".
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