Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 11:01:10 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-I: movement


Doug wrote:
>I think those of
>us who've been awaiting the revolution for so long, who think that
>oppression and misery are the fertilizer of resistance, have to appreciate
>the fact that if subjects are formed through constraint and submission,
>then people can often embrace constraint and submission (as the
>preconditions for continuing mental and social coherence) rather than
>striking out at them.

Not only that, people may try to resist constraint and submission by
striking out at the wrong target. For example, white guys in militias in
the U.S.... Psychoanalytic concepts of repression, displacement, abjection,
etc. are useful if we want to analyze why such misrecognition occurs.

Yoshie




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