[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture
- From: Julie <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:37:57 -0500
Is #4 a secret, to be only divulged to a cabal of esoterics?
Julie Kruegerer
Wondering what the password and initiation rites are, and if it's worth it.
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From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:24 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture
JW:
> To make another metaphor, one that's intended as metaphor, not as
> biologically determinative, maybe "Culture" (with a capital C) is like
> DNA.
Oh goody!!! A metaphor fight! Here's mine: culture is a recipe for
cooking-up a life. "Cooking-up" is, of course a metaphor for dealing with
the ingredients at hand. The "ingredients at hand" is a metaphor for
something like -- (1) all the values imbued in you by your loving or
unloving parents -- it makes a difference in how bitter the meal the dish
turns out, as Irene will testify -- as well as by all your preachers and
teachers and Mrs. Grundy; (2) your weird neighbors; (3) your own particular
physical and psychological needs; and (5) social circumstances. Most of us
tend to not trust ourselves enough to throw out the recipe and start from
scratch. The ingredients are there -- that's all we really have to work
with. OK, then, we go with the comfort food meal. But occasionally someone
will come along with some strange ingredient and add that in. And that
changes the whole taste of life. Those who like it, repeat it, those who
don't either kill those who change the recipe or learn to live with the
difference. Ergo Baskin-Robbins.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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