[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis
- From: "Orion Anderson" <libraryofsocialscience@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:34:37 -0400
I think belief systems very often ARE interchangeable. One can
believe in Allah (Bin Laden) or Germany (Hitler) or Communism (Lenin).
People need "something to kill and die for:" an omnipotent object to
which they can attach. The object becomes part of one's ego, providing a
sense of stability and coherence. Some people study Lacan as if they are
studying the Bible.
People can separate from culture and belief-systems: become more
individual or individuated. But often this is traumatic: the ego fragments
when it is separated from the omnipotent object to which one has been
attached. One shrinks. Shrinkage means separateness or separation. It has
its advantages, to become real.
RAK
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