Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 06:48:30 +0100
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-PSY: the contradiction


Hi Russ,

Contradictions are tricky things. (Sigh). I do not quite remember the good
breast/bad breast formulation as coming from me but it seems an inevitable
formulation. The ideal formulation for reformists. So Marx was right about
the social contradictions but wrong that the solution was revolution -
instead mother love and apple pie?

I certainly think there is an argument on the psychological level that
leftists may split off their aggressive feelings and focus them in politics
alone, in a distorted way.

Chris Burford

London.



At 10:02 AM 8/6/97 +0100, you wrote:
>"The child comes to love and hate simultaneously, and to accept the
>contradiction." Winnicott.
>
>Hi Chris, some time ago you suggested that as radicals we might have a good
>breast/bad breast relationship to capitalist societies. These are the
>societies that nuture us, and yet we wish to transform this relationship.
>Perhaps we might re-phrase Winnicott to say that the Marxist comes to love
>and hate simultaneously but wants to overcome the contradiction!
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>
>Russ




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