From: Jeanraiso-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:09:33 EST
Subject: Re : Re: boundaries in flow




<< I think we really need to deconstruct this notion of boundaries.
 
 If you have two flows, a flow of sand and a flow of gravel that you're
pouring
 into a funnel that's falling onto the ground, where is the boundary between
 the sand and the gravel? What happens when heterogenous mixes mix?
 
 In psychology especially (APA, DSMIV), the whole notion of "boundaries" has
 become absurd in the last ten years. "Boundary violations", "making sure to
 place proper boundaries" makes the whole field sound like a nation state
 trying to keep out immigrants. Hakim Bey has a good online article critiquing
 this.
  >>

hello; I am french, new on the list (I have read it a little bit for a few
weeks) and very ignorant;  I have tryied to read deleuze (ATP); I watched the
"abcdaire" and was touched and interested by some of it; I am mostly trying to
think by myself.

I have my own idea of "deconstruction" I don't know if it is related or not to
the "official" one; to me deconstruction is a personnal, subjective work ; I
want to question the (vague) meaning that has been imposed on me through
education and go back to my own experience,  my own contemplation; and it has
to do with going back to the similarities    (and differences)between
different situations out of them the concept can be created, or grasped.
(this is still quite vague in my mind)

for exemple "boundary" ;
 the first situation I want to contemplate is  the boundary of a living cell;
there is this tremendous paradox  and immense mystery of life which, thanks to
the boundary (and all the rest of the cell), makes the  cell at the same time
quite autonomous and at the same time totally interdependant with the outside;
in that sense I see a beautiful similarity with this situation and the notion
of boundary in psychology (where there is also this paradox); so I can accept
that the same word "boundary" is used.
on the other hand about the boundary between a flow of sand and a flow of
gravel I don't see clearly that paradox and the word to me is less
appropriate.

cordialement

jean.