From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:45:15 EST Subject: Re: Re: boundaries in flow "Like, duh. I know what he meant. That's not the point. To wit: what he said is a fatuous spew of logorrhea, devoid of the least worth. Now, do you have something to say about that, or are you just going to continue to parade your own deluded irrelevance?" M., Since you're having such a difficult time with what I said, let me translate it for you: "I'm suggesting depassing tropes which fit into socioepistemological configurations which are ultimately repressive." "depasse" is a term Sartre uses that means to bypass, to supercede, to retire, to make obsolete, to render a thing of the past, to take a tendency of the shelf and put it back in the stacks, to fossilize the dinosaur's bones and look back and laugh, to render something as campy or cheesy and no longer effective. "tropes" can refer to cultural themes, ways of organizing knowledge or dividing up discourse (as well as passionate distinctions that people fight for in a particular time period) ; in this particular case, as I was referring to psychology, I was referring to diagnostic categories that definitely emerged out of the dinosaur past, and despite their campiness seem to continue to be taken quite seriously. Now these diagnostic categories WITHOUT A FUCKING DOUBT enter into socioepistemological configurations which are repressive!! "socioepistemological" = organized social bodies for determining the truth. In this case, the American Psychological Association, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (IV), and in addition, due to new U.S. Laws, any country which accept aid from the United States, which now must follow these diagnostic categories in their mental health programs. This is a political and social determination of what shall be truth, of how the world shall be seen and divided up. Since treatment can still be forced upon people in many parts of the country and world, these diagnostic categories fit into an immense repressive apparatus. I am suggesting, yes, that we make a laughing stock of the APA and DSM-IV by considering their cutups of the world obsolete and ridiculous. Now that's a statement of some worth, and I apologize if my compression of it into a compact, dense statement was too much for you. I often think in dense statements. (un)leash
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