tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20312680.post7260656046695831924..comments2023-12-31T00:57:46.133-08:00Comments on New Leafs: Language as Disease & Language as PlayJasunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06645623536130682696noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20312680.post-52968021051027041202012-04-04T14:12:08.132-07:002012-04-04T14:12:08.132-07:00Didn't know there were many around talking or ...Didn't know there were many around talking or thinking about Norman O. Brown?<br /><br />I was a big fan back in the 60's.<br /><br />You might enjoy my own little take on Brown, Marcuse, and some other topics if you haven't already stumbled upon from some links at Reality Sandwich.<br /><br />http://broadspeculations.com/2012/01/18/eros-thanatos-and-tantra/Jim Crosshttp://broadspeculations.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20312680.post-88580709085139210022012-04-04T13:05:23.354-07:002012-04-04T13:05:23.354-07:00Didn't know there were many around talking or ...Didn't know there were many around talking or thinking about Norman O. Brown?<br /><br />I was a big fan back in the 60's.<br /><br />You might enjoy my own little take on Brown, Marcuse, and some other topics if you haven't already stumbled upon from some links at Reality Sandwich.<br /><br />http://broadspeculations.com/2012/01/18/eros-thanatos-and-tantra/Jim Crosshttp://broadspeculations.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20312680.post-42316744631080430372012-03-13T07:06:39.531-07:002012-03-13T07:06:39.531-07:00Language is a TIME-TRAVELLING SOFTWARE because it ...Language is a TIME-TRAVELLING SOFTWARE because it enables us to understand the THEN just now. In that sense, language is from the FUTURE. As soon as you can "seize understanding" you have transcended the NOW through a SIMULATION software called LANGUAGE. <br /><br />My two cents.elinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20312680.post-3582743767635524592012-03-02T12:45:54.737-08:002012-03-02T12:45:54.737-08:00That's a question that's addressed later o...That's a question that's addressed later on in the book. I agree, but also disagree. I am ambivalent. Intellectual knowledge allows us to grasp and map ever deeper aspects of the unconscious life - but is that a good thing? <br /><br />An interesting point in the book, Freud's, is that unconscious aspects of the psyche become conscious firstly through denial. In other words, we know that we are getting close to unconscious areas of ourselves when we start to deny them. Anything we accept without a fight, therefore, isn't really breaking new ground.Jasunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645623536130682696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20312680.post-24980370930907366832012-03-02T11:35:09.092-08:002012-03-02T11:35:09.092-08:00Maybe discontent is not neurotic but just fundamen...Maybe discontent is not neurotic but just fundamental. Maybe it's just life. Rocks are perfectly content. Where is it writ that our unconscious desires are any more satisfiable (in some ultimate once-and-for-all sense) than our conscious ones? Personally, I feel more content in my life when I am not so discontent with my discontent.<br /><br />Anyway, re: history and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is itself just another historical development. I think the idea that you can use it to transcend history falls into the same trap that the passage is trying to articulate.fnordnoreply@blogger.com