Subject: RE: psychoanalysis
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:54:40 +0200 


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-----Original Message-----
From: kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca
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Subject: Re: psychoanalysis



On 6 May 2000 13:14:10 -0000 dick gifford <dickgifford-AT-2hb.net> wrote:

> 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