[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:48 AM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I respectfully submit that first, it is not possible to "waft" between two
> notions, statements, women, religions, traffic lanes, etc.. To waft is not
> to
> waver.


To waft is not to waver, but that does not rule out wafting between two
propositions in any but a thoroughly regimented world locked in Weber's iron
cage of rationality.

Wafting, floating, drifting, slithering from one proposition to another:
 the usual term is "brainstorming", suspending critical censorship and
releasing the mind to follow associations where it will. Often to
foolishness but sometimes to genuine insight.

John

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John McCreery
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