Freud as Heidegger
September 8th, 2007, search relatedRelated posts :: “We Laughed when they blamed Martin Slybeggar” :: “We laughed when they blamed West” :: “We Laughed when they blamed Martin Slybeggar” :: self and other
In a message dated 08/09/2007 20:05:32 GMT Standard Time,
allen.scult at DRAKE.EDU writes:
I was reading a book on memory written by a multi-degreed, much
decorated neuro-scientist In the process of reviewing basic Freud in
order to plug the basic Freudian dynamics into his more biological
view of brain function, he comes out with the following:
“The connection between a slip of the tongue and its cause or between
a symptom and the underlying cognitive process is obscured by the
operation of defences –ubiquitous, dynamic, unconscious mental
processes–resulting in a CONSTANT STRUGGLE BETWEEN SELF REVEALING
AND SELF-PROTECTIVE MENTAL EVENTS.”
Aletheia as a “mental event.”? Why not? It reflects a long held, but
little expressed (at least overtly) view of mine that the mental
dynamics of my own neurotic self can be made relevant to my
understanding of the work of concealent/unconcealment in the process
of truth, if those dynamics are care-fully, carefully thought.
Jud:
You don’t give the impression of being neurotic Allen, but if you are, or
believe that you are, I suggest the main reason may be your curious belief
that you have a *self* and that you [the holistic Allen] at the same time host
a *neurotic self* in some kind of bizarrely conceived boarding-house for
boxing bugaboos in your brain. Added to this is your burdensome belief not only
in *events* [which is bad enough] but also push the existential envelope by
believing in the non-existent *mental* and the existence of *mental
events.*
It leaves you with the non-existent battling bugaboos of *self* versus*
*neurotic self* acting as the quarrelsome crossing-keepers working the stop/go
lights at the unattended neurological carrefours of
concealent/unconcealment by allowing or denying access to a reification called *truth.*
In that sense maybe Philip Larkin* was wrong, and it’s not our parents fault
after all - but is a result of one taking abstraction literally?
Unless of course - [and it IS possible,] that they were the ones who [for
the best possible motives] introduced you to abstraction in the first place
and are
[innocently] responsible for your inchoate angst?
_http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm_
http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.h…)
Regards,
Jud
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