Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:46:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Anita Berber <fdrtikol-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: A Reading of the Dossier


I'd like a copy of your paper. I meet every monday with
a bunch of psychology types who have trouble seeing
what postmodernism has to do with anything they care
about.

--- Lois Shawver <rathbone-AT-california.com> wrote:
> 
> Jer, you said:
> <Historically, force "resolves" differends. Can
> understanding differends
> >
> 
> According to my reading, if that dispute which is a
> differend, is
> dissolved, then it is, ipso facto, no longer a
> "differend." He says:
> 
> "The differend is the unstable state and instance of
> language in which
> something which ought to be able to be phrased
cannot
> yet be phrased." 
> (p.20)
> 
> I believe that it cannot be phrased because the
> person making the
> complaint cannot find a language in which to make
the
> complaint that is
> shared with the one who is judging.  Suppose I am
the
> judge and I have a
> Kangaroo court in which I do not allow for anything
> to be called rape
> unless the victim was killed.  Then, it would be
hard
> for what you and I
> call a rape victim to make a complaint.  What would
> she say?  And, if
> the language game of the Kangaroo court was
> sufficiently restricted,
> sufficiently controlled, she would simply not be
able
> to make her
> complaint.  Lyotard says:
> 
> "An injustice results from the fact that the rules
of
> the genre of
> discourse according to which one judges are not
those
> of the genre(s) of
> discourse being judged...The title of this book
> suggests...that a
> universal rule of judgment among heterogenous genres
> is in general
> lacking." The Differend, p.9
> 
> We universal rule is lacking because the meaning of
> terms are negotiated
> locally and provisionally (see the last pages of The
> Postmodern
> Condition).
> 
> I have a paper on The Differend as it relates to
> psychotherapy (in my
> view) which should be appearing shortly that I will
> make available to
> those who write me for it.  It should be in print
> shortly, or it may be
> already.
> 
> Shawver, L. (1998), On the Clinical Relevance of
> Selected Postmodern
> Ideas: with a Focus on Lyotard's Concept of
> "Differend".  Journal of the
> American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 26(4), 617-635.
> 
> ..Lois Shawver
> 

=="I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." Michel Foucault

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