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From: PsycheCulture-AT-cs.com
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:55:54 EST
Subject: The Human Body & the Body Politic



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Weiner, M. A. in MAXIMUM IMMUNITY.

      "Your immune system is programmed to take care of the day-to-day job of 
protecting you against foreign invaders. Imagine that you body is a sovereign 
nation--a complete, separate organism.  What prevents your body, the host 
country, from becoming a Petri dish for every kind of bacterium &virus?  That 
is the job of your immune system.  It is the immune system that protects you 
from attack by foreign &internal agents, that plans defensive actions, and 
that provides the necessary personnel &equipment."  


Lennart Nilsson in THE BODY VICTORIOUS:

      "The organization of the human immune system is reminiscent of military 
defense, with regard to both weapon technology and strategy. Our internal 
army has at its disposal swift, highly mobile regiments, shock troops, 
snipers, and tanks. We have soldier cells which, on contact with the enemy, 
at once start producing homing missiles whose accuracy is overwhelming. Our 
defense system also boasts ammunition which pierces and bursts bacteria."

Melanie Klein (interpreted by Ogden):

      "Biological processes are mirrored in activities of the mind called 
unconscious phantasies.  Phantasy is the psychic representation of one's 
biology.  Mental phenomena have physiologic substrates."

Lacan:

      "The unconscious is structured like a language."

Koenigsberg:

      "Language is structured like the unconscious."

Richard Koenigsberg, Ph. D.
Director, Library of Social Science

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Weiner, M. A. in MAXIMUM IMMUNITY.

      "Your immune system is programmed to take care of the day-to-day job of protecting you against foreign invaders. Imagine that you body is a sovereign nation--a complete, separate organism.  What prevents your body, the host country, from becoming a Petri dish for every kind of bacterium &virus?  That is the job of your immune system.  It is the immune system that protects you from attack by foreign &internal agents, that plans defensive actions, and that provides the necessary personnel &equipment." 


Lennart Nilsson in THE BODY VICTORIOUS:

      "The organization of the human immune system is reminiscent of military defense, with regard to both weapon technology and strategy. Our internal army has at its disposal swift, highly mobile regiments, shock troops, snipers, and tanks. We have soldier cells which, on contact with the enemy, at once start producing homing missiles whose accuracy is overwhelming. Our defense system also boasts ammunition which pierces and bursts bacteria."

Melanie Klein (interpreted by Ogden):

      "Biological processes are mirrored in activities of the mind called unconscious phantasies.  Phantasy is the psychic representation of one's biology.  Mental phenomena have physiologic substrates."

Lacan:

      "The unconscious is structured like a language."

Koenigsberg:

      "Language is structured like the unconscious."

Richard Koenigsberg, Ph. D.
Director, Library of Social Science
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