[lit-ideas] Re: Conscious after the fact?/Una paloma blanca


--- On Mon, 30/6/08, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>If Freud gave up on humanity, then I'm
> certainly vindicated, not that I need to be vindicated, but
> I am.

Substitute anything for "Freud gave up on humanity", and here we have an 
assertion that is psychologically revealing; to me if smacks of a certain 
complacency/dogmatism allied to a capacity to find and exploit supposed 
'verifications', while decrying their necessity. If there is no "need to be 
vindicated" then surely whatever Freud did is otiose and cannot provide 
vindication? 

(I'm trying to copyright "Not That I Need To Be Vindicated, But I Am" as song 
title for a Broadway musical I hope to write, along with "I Don't Apologize For 
Who I Am, I Just Am" and "Every Street Has A Corner That's Mine, All Mine"  
etc.)


Re David's post:- I didn't find it ugly (that was SpainvItaly as ground down by 
Italy), am unsure about the Ballack thing (though think it is the kind of thing 
_he_ would do), and thought Senna was a powerhouse. The  headbutt thing was 
Silva being stupid but the German leant in and they mutually locked horns first 
- the ref was right to let it go as six of one etc. and on the de minimis 
principle.

The best team of the tournament won and (your own team winning aside) that's 
always the best thing. (Possible counter-example:- England _if they were the 
best in '66_ for Alf's wingless wonders lead to copycat 4-4-2 defensiveness 
that spilled over until a glorious Brazil showed how it should be done four 
years later; and some Italian teams too, but then they can make defending an 
art form).

Donal
Heigh-ho Silva! 
(That's enough - Ed.)




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