Date: 5 May 2000 13:15:47 -0000
Subject: Re: psychoanalysis


On Thu, 4 May 2000 18:19:39 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca wrote:
>On 4 May 2000 21:39:31 -0000 dick gifford <dickgifford-AT-2hb.net> wrote:
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>> 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? 
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>Critical theory (frankfurt school --> habermas), hermeneutics (esp. gadamer), 

[d]> Just two weeks ago found (and bought) Gadamer's Italian lecture on the Presocratics in a second-hand bookstore.

[k]>

>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.

[d]> 

Indeed! That's what I've been thrashing out with these dogmatic Jungians. Question:  Is what's "back there" important (the unconscious, "God", pure consciousness)? Or is how you get there that's the real and only issue today? 
They're trying to apply Wolff's (disciple of Jung) feminine archetypes to a theory of cultural evolution, but spend most of their time arguing about Valentinian gnosis. 

[k]>
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>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

VIRUS ALERT: "I LOVE YOU" DO NOT OPEN FILE TITLED SO.

Dick. 
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