File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-09-03.184, message 30


From: antonsen-AT-alf.nbi.dk
Subject: Re: Revolting  
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 09:49:18 +0200


This is a reply to Luke's reply to my reply to Celine... (getting complicated 
now...)

Luke writes (again):

>This system would be amoral in the sense that it would be a result of
>spontaneious decision, something which has it's origin in the unconscious,
>and so has no moral intention. If we simply react to a situation in an
>intuitive way which "feels right",  then that is enough. 

That is PRECISELY a moral system, a set of rules, guidelines, principles or 
whatever you wish to call it. And this has been my point all along (I'm sorry I 
haven't been able to put it better...).
Morality has nothing to do with consciousness; yes the super-ego has to do with 
the implanted "morals" (I actually wrote "no-rals" here first, an interesting 
typo...) of bourgeois society, but the unconscious has its own morals (and its 
own logics, i.e. set of rules), and this is the morality (the only TRUE one) you 
talk about when you say "intuitively feel right".

Frank


   

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