Subject: Re: psychoanalysis
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 18:19:39 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)


On 4 May 2000 21:39:31 -0000 dick gifford <dickgifford-AT-2hb.net> wrote:

> U. of T. eh? We're in Halifax. Very loosely affiliated with the Concordia 
Sensoria Research Group in Montreal. Got notions: a doctrine of the cultural 
specificity of brain development. What are you into? 

Critical theory (frankfurt school --> habermas), hermeneutics (esp. gadamer), 
german idealism (kant - hegel - schelling) and psychoanalysis (freud, lacan, 
and the slovene lacanian school). I'm affiliated with Religion at the U of T 
(finishing a phd) - linking up notions of psychosis with utopian horizons in 
social theory. What happens when your utopian horizon turns out to be 
psychotic? That kind of thing.

I'm also the moderator of M&T here and feel a loose knit obligation to welcome 
people to the list, since posting is fairly infrequent.

ken