Date: 9 May 2000 19:37:05 -0000
Subject: RE: psychoanalysis


On Tue, 9 May 2000 09:54:40 +0200  "Voets, Henk" <h.j.l.voets-AT-tbm.tudelft.nl> wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca
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>Subject: Re: psychoanalysis
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>On 6 May 2000 13:14:10 -0000 dick gifford <dickgifford-AT-2hb.net> wrote:
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>> But, as soon as I get a little "flaky" -- unilaterally removing physical
>laws 
>from mental life -- I don't get a response.
>
>I wouldn't think that the unilateral removal of physical laws from mental
>life 
>is an altogether helpful thing. After all, there is a physical / material
>base 
>to all of this, at least from a Freudian perspective. If I'm getting onto an
>
>airplane, I'd rather not dispute the metaphysics of engineering.
>
>> OH.... These folks are, for the most part, really anti-Lacanian "the
>Gallic 
>Trickster" etc. etc. I don't know a whole lot about Lacan myself, but I do
>know 
>that he shifted the emphasis on "castration" toward the symbolic
>(linguistic) 
>and away from the biological.
>
>Yep - In hoc signo vinces [with this sign you will vanish]
>
>ken

Ken: 

Two possibilities presented themselves (almost same day): toward or away from analytic reasoning. Gotta go with the person who's been reading between the lines.
Impressions, feelings, intuition.... 
One "utopian" tableau does come to mind. There's a Pompeiian fresco in Naples. A Napoleonic-looking Dionysos is standing on some raised platform affair or other. Apollo is standing below and to one side (looking subdued); and there's a rather star-crazed-looking Venus seated opposite. 
The possibility that rationality and the free-rein of affectivity did co-exist (however briefly, or 
necessarily within a proscribed sub-culture) would be one example of the realization of a utopian vision. 
But who would get the idea to construe this vision as pathological? 

Dick. 








 


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