From: "michelle phil lewis-king" <king.lewis-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Re: re : Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:53:33 -0000



 Since this thread started I've been groping around for Derrida's reference
to the 'pharmakon' ...  the poison provokes the cure.... but I still can't
find it! relevant?

> I think Deleuze/Spinoza develops a distinction useful here :
>
> Poison / Medicine
>
> instead of bad / good
>
> "poison" is much better because it is always relative to the system in
> question ... and one man's poison is another man's pleasure
>