Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:27:52 +1100 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Re: awakening from history MessageEric wrote: My question back to you is this. Is such a psychoanalytical approach to history now completely outmoded or does it still have an unsuspected life of its own? If you feel in your gut this approach is not valid, what would you then substitute in its place? My answer is Yes, the psychoanalytical approach to history is outmoded, not valid. It's influence, however, (unsuspected life) permeates the individual and collective memories of all us who read of postmodernity, and will affect anything we substitute in its place. We cannot resurrect the corpse of the psychoanalytical, but we cannot escape its affect on the here-and-now, the personal symbolic universes in which we "live", have our "being". We can't escape the ideas of Freud and Marx, nor should we. We can address the world we live in and the relevance of those ideas to our personal vision of the future of humanity. If we can only see that future through the words of post-modern writers, so be it. If our concept of social action is simply to re-iterate and advocate PM ideas of the past few decades, so be it. However, for better or worse, the intellectual resources of 6 billion people, in about 200 separate nations, will determine the future...Most of these populations are religious in a sense that includes neither Freud nor Marx, nor PM philosophers. U.S. military power over religious beliefs may be as successful as Israeli power over Palestinian beliefs, or it may not. To be continued. regards, Hugh
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