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"We cannot Change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it Oppresses." - Carl Jung

LEJ Magazine explores culturally impacting libidinal beliefs and practices across borders, ages, and unmentionable social mores. We are excited to publish exploratory, highly imaginative, views, opinions, and journalism in written, visual, audio, and hybrid form.

Be bold and run free with your creative expression. Our mission for the magazine is to inspire our audience to expand their notion of creativity by emboldening both the logical and ephemeral definitions of cultural innovation, ingenuity, and inventiveness.

Have fun! Be playful and most importantly, submit well thought out multilayered work that speaks to your deepest libidinal human drive in Jungian terms, the desire to express oneself beyond the pale!

" – the only kind of curiosity, in any case, that is worth acting upon with a degree of obstinacy: not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself. - Michel Foucault

And, as always, Limit Experience Magazine is all about the hair-pin curves that change requires we navigate as experimenters in the libidinal realm. Therefore, your submission should include a subconscious alteration of the protagonist's narrative state; when the reader metabolizes your submission should shift them from one state to the next.

In other words, a level of CHANGE is required for the Limit Experience to be validated. To provide the reader with a catalyst for growth whether they decide to embrace it or not is key to the LE project.

We look forward to reviewing your work,

LE Team

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"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, police take the place of pirates." - Michel Foucault

Limit Experience Journal is now accepting work that encapsulates the messy entanglements that our subconscious builds while we sleep.

Writing, audioscapes, and multimedia that evoke the extremes with which the architecture of the psyche wrestles.

Submit well thought out, authentic pieces that will delight our audience.

We look forward to reviewing your work,

Auguste & LEJ Team

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The term limit-experience originated in mid-20th century French philosophical realms but its application is timeless and universal. A limit-experience sets up change with the goal of transformation of some sort or other depending on the practitioner's concerns. Limit Experience Journal publishes well thought out text, audio, and visuals that encompasses this premise.

However you creatively interpret your own perspective of a limit-experience we are curious about how you'll communicate it in your piece(s)! Feel free to submit two entries per submission fee.

We look forward to reviewing your work.

Auguste Hill & Team

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“So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless”

- Elizabeth Cunningham

To stand up to cultural normatives as if they do not rule your behavior is to be free and untethered from a basic libidinal constraint that is sexual taboo.

We want to review work that either agrees or disagrees with this statement with a well thought out perspective.

Basically, your work’s length and breadth will depend on the individual creative and intellectual parameters that you find useful. Strong, well-crafted fiction and nonfiction essays, short films, poetry, photography, and investigative journalism will be considered for publication.*

Read LEJ’s mission and guidelines for more context. Also, read The Sacral and The Sacred, the Winter 2021 issue, to get an overview of LEJ's general tone. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

LEJ Editorial Team

* You may attach up to 2 submissions for the fee.

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Sexual Congruency and the Wilds Within

Sexual congruency generally refers to the internal alignment and harmony between a person's sexual identity, orientation, desires, and outward expression. It's when someone's internal sense of their sexuality—how they feel, who they're attracted to, what they want—is in sync with how they live and express it in the world. It doesn’t necessarily mean conformity to external norms or expectations, but rather a kind of internal coherence, authenticity, and truthfulness to self.

For some, sexual congruency might come naturally; for others, it might require a long process of unlearning shame, navigating societal pressures, or coming to terms with identity.

At its core, sexual congruency is about feeling whole and honest in one's sexual self which requires yielding to inner truth while navigating the persona we present while engaging in external experience.

We're interested in reviewing work that is daring yet not overly performative. Honest but willful in its exploration of edges. We look forward to hearing from you.

- Auguste, Limit Experience Editor-in-Chief and Team

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"In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance." - Jeanette Winterson

I've always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect." - Benjamin X. Wretlind

"Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom." - David Wojnarowicz

SEXUAL TRANSITIONS: Ephemeral or Functional, CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

How do you access, delimit or corporeally define the realms between the culturally "suitable" sexual behaviors and the undiscovered and rare libidinal places?

We invite work that is well thought out and authentic in its approach to submit to this call.*

Going beyond the pale is encouraged. Feel free to evoke taboo spaces in your piece.

We are thrilled to review your work!

Auguste Hill, editor-in-chief

*It's fine to submit 2 pieces with the single fee.

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LEJ CINEMA: Transformative Film Reviews Call for Submissions

Whether it's A Clockwork Orange, Belle de Jour ('67), Brokeback Mountain, Carol, Eyes Wide Shut, Little Children, Monster, Manhattan, Philadelphia, The Piano Teacher, Repulsion ('65),Y tu mamá también, or other cinematic fare, if you've experienced a film as sexually transformative, regardless of how unconventional or circuitous the route you took from movie to trauma realignment, write a review from this perspective.

Suggestion: as part of the review describe your relationship to cinema before and after your experience with this movie rocked your world.

• Review Word Limit: FREEDOM; No minimum or maximum. We trust you'll make your point powerfully and succinctly using the exact space required.
• Be personal. Go Beyond the Pale and we'll be thrilled to publish your film review.*
• Include an IMDB link to the film you're referencing if available in the body of the review
• Include a Bio at the bottom of your piece: Limit 100 wds. Video & Audio Recordings are Welcome as long as the writing content is well thought out and has good production value.
  

IN GRATITUDE for your participation:

*If your review is printed in LEJ you'll be credited three LEJ Duotrope submission fees. Should you decide to submit an essay or other works to the journal email the editor via the website's contact page with GRATITUDE FOR (and the name of your review) in the subject line. This offer is good for one year from your film review's publication date and is transferable. Give a writer friend a gift!

We look forward to reviewing your piece!

LEJ Team

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Submission Wild Card!

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Hello,

In order to construct an erotic response to life, humans enact a complicated list of subconscious learned and inherited attitudes and behaviors.

We publish well thought out, critically articulated submissions that go beyond the pale. Various explorations of sexuality and the unmentionable, the transgressive, and the uncanny aspects of marginalized libidinal narratives are the basis for this project. We consider fiction and nonfiction as apt ways to address a broad landscape of critical libidinal issues. Academically bent work is fine as long as it acclimates a literary tone to tendencies of the phenomenological and not only the intellect. In other words, The Libidinal Landscape is meant here to be a reference to the body of the mind as well as the corporeal accessible through kinesthetic interpretations of human sexual journeys.

Take a look at our mission if you'd like to get a clearer idea about why LEJ exist. The journal has an interesting founding story, too. The idea emerged in a Los Angeles, CA philosophy class and then because it was relentless, was hatched as a publication several years later in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Read more about the Libidinal Landscapes call for entries with this editorial.

Auguste Hill & LE Team

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"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves." - Andre Gide

The "travel cure" includes various configurations of focus sometimes we travel to escape ourselves sometimes we travel to get lost in ourselves and sometimes we travel in search of external paradigms of meaning. Regardless of the impetus every time we take on an adventure it has an external and an internal component.

"There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed." - Kate Douglas Wiggin

The result of movement of any kind, existential or actual, creates change. The more radical and experimental travels can lead to limit-experiences. Change in the self is the result. If a libidinal lens is used intentionally as we move into the found world or in retrospect we come upon pockets of sexual realization. Brought on by seeing a place in our re-membering, we alter the position we hold in the personal as evidenced by the evolving silhouette on the page.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu

Send in your well thought out narratives, tales, stories, poetry, short films and art that intend to impose travel and sexuality on the subconsciousness of the viewer.

We look forward to reviewing your work.

- LEJ Team

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