COMPULSION VS. ADDICTION
Compulsions are repetitive behaviors with no rational motivation, but are often engaged in to reduce anxiety.
Addictions involve an inability to stop the behavior, despite negative consequences. Both involve a lack of control.
Rollo May: “anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value that an individual holds essential to his existence as a personality. The threat may be to physical or psychological life (death, or loss of freedom) or may be some other value which the individual identifies with his existence (patriotism, the love of another person, success, etc.” (May, 1950).
For example, someone may say “If I couldn’t support my family, I’d as soon jump off the end of the dock. This put simply, is saying that If he couldn’t preserve the self-respecting position of being the responsible wage-earner, his whole life would have no meaning and he might as well not exist. The occasions of anxiety will vary with the different people as widely as the values on which they depend vary, but what will always be true in anxiety is that the threat is to a value held by that particular individual to be essential to his existence and consequently to his security as a personality.” (May 1950).
Rollo May: “anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value that an individual holds essential to his existence as a personality. The threat may be to physical or psychological life (death, or loss of freedom) or may be some other value which the individual identifies with his existence (patriotism, the love of another person, success, etc.” .
For example, someone may say “If I couldn’t support my family, I’d as soon jump off the end of the dock. This put simply, is saying that If he couldn’t preserve the self-respecting position of being the responsible wage-earner, his whole life would have no meaning and he might as well not exist. The occasions of anxiety will vary with the different people as widely as the values on which they depend vary, but what will always be true in anxiety is that the threat is to a value held by that particular individual to be essential to his existence and consequently to his security as a personality.”
Our allegiance to the rather vacuous notion of reality begs the question is our reality laying in the our depths rather than our surface
In its heavy burden of 'content' which is milked in a social and cultural diagnosis
way - the the 'critics' rather than concentrating on the properties of a novel, play
or Art work the critics on first reading appear to be humanly obsolescent and don't
they talk a lot?
The difference between high and low culture seems less and less meaningful
for such a distinction simply does not make sense to view culture as a species of moral
journalism
The vocabulary of psychiatry has become a routine weapon for personal aggression
Being psychoanlyzed has become such a bourgeois institution on a par with going
to/College and psychoanalytic ideas incarnated in Broadway plays in Television
and in the Movies confront us everywhere.
America is tearing itself apart over the war in Gaza, and the campus of Columbia University in New York has become the epicenter of the battle. Political leaders from Washington are inviting themselves to the campus in the midst of the 2024 election campaign. The conflict could prove devastating for Joe Biden, alienating both a section of the youth and a segment of the Jewish vote.
So, on Wednesday, April 24, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, went in front of the prestigious university's Low library, right next to the tents set up by pro-Palestinian students denouncing America's support for Israel and the brutality of the war in Gaza. "Go back to class and stop the nonsense," he demanded, condemning anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic remarks. "These are words we expect from ayatollahs in Iran, not American lawmakers, and not American students
How would Tulsi Gabbard fare as VP?
Brilliantly, compare and contrast Tulsi to Kamala
lies can be experienced as a real betrayal by those who are victims of these dishonest inventions. Who are the liars? i CAN THINK OF ONE
Fans of deception and hypocrisy? Is lying necessarily avoidable, in all circumstances? Or are there untruths that can be justified by an exceptional situation or force majeur =irresistible compulsion or superior strength.
the end of History for Fukuyama assertion was that History/human progress had reached it apex
in other words it was the best possible, if Liberal Democratic works better than all known
alternatives., it is easy to poke fun at this over arching assertion, but most people today
especially in Western democracies are Fukuyamean
WHO needs direct repression when one can convince the Chicken to walk freely into the slaughter house,
The self propelling compulsion to expand, Capital remains more than ever the ultimate REAL of our lives a beast that by definition cannot be controlled
when was the Rubicon crossed? - a long time ago
what does the invoke? A RAGE POTENTIAL
Onw see's the outcome of the Professoriats' teaching in the riots that currently
plagues the US Universities.
THE PERMISSIVE SOCIETY BROADENS THE SCOPE OF WHAT SUBJECTS ARE ALLOWED TO DO WITHOUT GIVING THEM ANY ADDITIONAL POWER
PROOF establishes that something happened
ANALYSIS attempts to show why it happened
Proof is a mode of argument that is complete
in Analysis there are always further angles of understanding, different realms of causality
Analysis is by definition always incomplete, even interminable
You witness a car crash and you then carry with you the inexorability of that event
as you relate to you friends, if you were placed as an official investigating the crash
your explanation would be terminated by necessity.
All ART may be treated as a mode of proof an assertion of accuracy in an attempt to be indisputable
with the the actions it represents...sometimes the artist displays
a kind of maximum vehemence that his/her work is right and not be disputed.
There is no universal truth between Religion and Societal social structure there are only models
showing the variability between them
All behaviour is a language a vocabulary and grammar for ORDER
ANTHROPOLOGY and the research on 'primitive' societies proves nothing
about human nature except the need, both in primitive and modern day societies
for order
Marx like Freud was morally conventional, even prudish
a great deal of the interpretation of these two cultural giants
was speculative.
To vitiate is to spoil or impair the product
Yarone, 26 months old, hums but doesn't speak, or only very little – a few barely enunciated utterances. "Sounds more than words, really," according to his parents, Cindy and Ruben (who preferred not to give their last names). On a Monday morning in late February, they were received for their first appointment at the Jean-Verdier Hospital in Bondy, northeast of Paris. Every week, families come here to ask pediatrician Sylvie Dieu Osika for help dealing with their children's excessive screen use.
The room where the doctor received the young couple, located at the end of a corridor adjoining the emergency room, echoed with the melodies that Yarone sang on a loop, often while spinning in circles and sometimes clapping his hands. He paid no heed to the toys – trains, blocks, etc. – that were near him. That's precisely what raised the alarm for his mom. "He's in his own bubble," she worried.
In December 2023, while on vacation and spending "more time at home," Cindy came to the realization that her baby, who used to be "lively and smiling in her first few months" as she captured in videos on her smartphone, had become withdrawn. "He looked at us and smiled less often and sang more and more." These melodies came from nursery rhymes posted on YouTube and viewed on the family TV screen "left on every afternoon," the parents admitted candidly. That is until they decided to put a stop to it. On December 26, they began to reduce their son's screen time. On January 6, they turned off the TV "permanently" until bedtime for Yarone and his older sister, who is two years older. They also asked the "nanny" to do the same.
"For 10 days, it was very hard," continued Cindy, "He kept having fits, like a drug addict." Since then, she's delighted to see him "start again" to take an interest in his toys and "start again" to babble. Still, she can't put aside the anxiety his behavior caused her to feel.
After a clinical examination of the little boy, the pediatrici
Moral beauty dissolves very rapidly into sententiousness
(given to or abounding in aphoristic expression or excessive moralizing terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression.
Kafka arouses pity and terror, Proust and Gide respect, Joyce admiration, but no writer
evoked love is his readers like Camus as he rejected all religious and the pathos of moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
in the last years he didn't become deranged by German philosophy, or Anglo Saxon empiricism, he didn't subside into Religion
or bourgeois humanitarianism - that quasi Religion,
he died incarnating that feeling of nobility
TODAY literature is full of mad lovers, gleeful rapists, castrated sons, but very few normal
husbands daughters, sons, modern liteRATURE IS OVER SUPPLIED WITH SUCH GHOULISH
LITERARY TASTE
Will it mean that we have to read novel at the least twice to understand it less we are tarred
with the brush of philistinism, or even worse derriere garde
(behind the times) in our maladroit exegesis of the precious text
Writers who concentrate their efforts what they believe is the essential is more than not
inessential that provides ease of access for the reader, lack of rigor, the common place, the minute, the transient.
The NOVEL should blush but it does not because it remain intransigently arriere garde
(behind and of date)
The psycho analytical failure to protect the patient against the political and cultural ravages of society which got her/him there in the first place
a REVISED bland FREUDIANISM which passes for Freud in the US today
it can be seen in discussion with faux INTELLECTUALS, television, Broadway etc
..THE PESSIMISTIC VIEW OF SEXUALITY WHICH IN FREUD'S VIEW WAS 'LOWER'
WHERE AS ART AND SCIENCE ARE 'HIGHER'
WHAT FREUD REFERS TO AS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IDEAL IS
THE PRIMACY OF THE INTELLECT
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embody or represent (a deity or spirit) in human form:"the idea that God incarnates himself in man"The psychology of immanence The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. It is held by some philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence. Immanence is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the mundane. It is often contrasted with theories of transcendence,
rather than the
eschatology
the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind:"Christian hope is concerned with eschatology, or the science of last things"of transcendence
The ARTICLE BELOW APPEARED IN THE French newspaper Le Figaro
in Paris, a principal resigned, threatened with death after asking three young girls to remove their veils - in the besieged sanctuary that the school has become.
The defeat is overwhelming, but the affair remains in reality sadly banal: the official reports, and in particular the latest alarming work of the Senate, perfectly show the erasure of secularism and the values of the Republic in schools as the progression of endemic violence in all establishments, from primary school onwards continues
A friend of mine points out...How Biden fabricates all in the cause of his own self enchancement
- a collapsed Bridge is the opportunity to bring the focus
back on himself,,,,'...I went over that Bridge by RAIL countless times'
duh?.... there is no rail,
the friend continues...'people who have a need for grandiosity will inevitably lie or add a gruesome detail (was eaten by cannibals) to get their attention, the friends goes on
'...this kind of behaviour is pathologically driven ....so look forward to many more 'porky pies' (English slang for 'lies') in the future
Not sure I agree with all my friend claims but it gives one pause for thought.
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There are many of us are perpetually in training...ready to launch ourselves into the next battle of egos - call a truce I say....
Are some of us unredeemed by the the slightest tinge of self-respect
for some of us when we reflect on on past our lack of self esteem
is obscene
WHY must we be like the bullfighter and risk being emotionally gored
why risk self laceration through continued self exposure?
For creative writing use your experience not as a bull fight but as a form of Quarry, which you return to mine the precious minerals
In exchange for the infusion of intense feeling and dangerous sensations notoriously tolerate moodiness selfishness, unreliability
and most of all obsessiveness on both sides of the bed
wHAT ONE TAKES TO BE AN ATTACHMENT TO ANOTHER PERSON MIGHT BE VIEWED AS ONE MOREDANCE OF THE SOLITARY EGO.
THIS EXHORTATORY VIEW MIGHT BE VIEWED AS SELF REPROACHFUL, OR OF ONE WHO WAS 'UNLUCKY' IN LOVE
WHY ARE WE SO FEARFUL OF ELON MUSK'S BRAIN IMPLANTS
WHEN WE RECEIVE BRAIN IMPLANTS ON A DAILY BASIS
Christianity from its inception is the ROMANTIC RELIGION
THE cult of LOVE in the West is an aspect of the cult of SUFFERING
SUFFERING AS THE SUPREME TOKEN OF SERIOUSNESS HOWEVER ATTENUATED
OR SECULARIZED A FORM
FOR 2000 YEARS IN WESTERN CULTURE IT HAS BEEN FASHIONABLE TO EMBRACE PAIN
WELL DIDN'T JESUS /CHRIST NAILED TO THE CROSS SET AN EXAMPLE
Pavese wrote. '...life is a jungle of self interest' he also argued that; '...life is pain and love is an anaesthetic
it follows for Pavese '...LOVE is the cheapest of Religions.'
What we usually or might get is an account of Exquisite sources of suffering, sexual adventures in disloyalty, distortions of truth all tellingly told
so as the Diarist emerges as a MARTYR
There are certain modes of writing (say a Diary) who do not need truth far better to replace with a disquieting abundance of imagination
written so endearingly as if they were on the knees
of their heart.
Disinterestedness contemplation attentiveness the awakeness sensuosness are feelings we may draw upon when observing ART because these constituents of feelings will enhance our daily life
Morality is a code of habitual acts and judgments and sentiments in which we reinforces our habits
in a certain way as we interact with other human beings in affable and considerate way.
T
he face is the center of gravity in any conversation. "Face to face" first and foremost reflects a principle of mutual consideration that implies reciprocal attention, unless it's inconveniencing the person receiving nothing in return. We resent people who don't look us in the face when addressing us. Individuals constantly orient their words and movements to what they perceive in their interlocutors' facial expressions, gestures, speech, voice and gaze.
The face embodies the morality of interaction, its nakedness on show, its expressiveness sometimes poorly concealing mishaps or mutual satisfaction. It is not a body part like others, but stands out by its position, its value, its eminence in communication and, above all, the sense of identity attached to it.
It's a ghost society where eyes are often lowered to the screen, even in front of others or in the streets, just like elsewhere in cafés, restaurants, waiting rooms, public transport, trains... Everywhere there is this absence of faces, of glances around, as individuals are hunched over their screens. Many people talk alone in the street or in common spaces, without fear of disturbing others. But connection, in its many forms, is not contact, something which implies a common presence and shared sensory experience.
What is it with criminal types?
They are usually compulsive liars, with grandiose claims.
Their language when defending themselves is usually hesitant
you could make a description of them as being a 'creepy' type
they make absurd claims about their achievements
when the reality of the damage caused by their decisions lies
in broken lives and in a catastrophe the full consequences
yet to be realised
Now Who could I be talking about?
PLATO's VIEW WAS THAT ALL ART IS A FORM OF TROMPE L'OIEL (DELUSION OF THE EYE)
and therefore a lie he does not dispute that it has a certain value, say as therapy
Aristotle thought it was medicinally useful as it serve as kind of incantatory, purgative therapy.
bY INTERPRETATION I MEAN PLUCKING WHAT YOU DEEM TO BE FACTS
THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN CODE INHERING IN A COMMUNICATION, CERTAIN FACTS THAT UPHOLSTERS OUR SENSE OF CERTAINTY
THE IDEA OF CONTENT SERVES AS A FORM OF THERAPY A HINDRANCE
A NOT SO SUBTLE PHILISTINISM
Pious consensus of left wing media and politicians
they are verging on the Religious with their certainties
and the Religious element of their thinking is clearly
evident with their introduction of a quasi Inquisition
for non believers
You look at a piece of text.../what does it mean
Someone expounds in a scholarly way at the dinner table....what is she talking about?
Now the interpretive process in you brain begins,,,is she just dis-burdening herself
I think....I will use a difficult word to match er erudition...'.could us more
exhoratory (persuasive) language?'
people excuse themselves and get up from the table
Walking
the poor relation of physical activity
But what's the point of knowing how fast you're walking? "The aim is to increase your aerobic capacity, lower your resting heart rate and see when you start to sweat," explained FFA coach Ali Saddedine. "It's above this threshold that walking is effective for improving endurance. Below that, it's just window-dressing, even if it's better than nothing," continued the coach. "The idea is to determine each person's pace, so as to get each person to go a little faster."
Gary Brecka recommends eating protein at breakfast and avoiding sugary foods. The reason ? By ingesting sugar, we increase our insulin level (the hormone that regulates our blood sugar, understand our blood sugar level). By exercising right after ingesting sugary foods, this insulin will block all forms of energy use in the body. The body will then draw first from glucose and not from fat. “In theory, this biological model is true,” comments Faïza Bossy, general practitioner and nutritionist. Except that it is a laboratory theory, difficult to apply to everyone. The elimination of fat will depend in each person on the distribution of fat, bone or muscle mass.
On the other hand, consuming proteins at breakfast reduces the blood sugar peak and prevents us from fatigue and cravings for sweets during the day. This reduces the risk of gaining weight. But protein breakfast is obviously not enough to lose weight sustainably. “A balanced nutrition is based on diversity,” recalls the doctor. The body also needs wate
The NORM and the DEVIANT are not stand alone positions they are not distinct categories
the understanding of them are constantly on the move, e.g long hair for men, pre Beatles was devianbefore being integrated into the acceptably normal etc.
Structuralism teaches us to look at the deep structures that underlie all cultural and communication
systems
studies haver shown that WOMEN were far more restricted in their range of
occupations than men . It was also noted that women in TV ads were home bound creatures
portrayed as indoor creatures whereas men were 5 time more likely to be shown in a business setting
Well, what do you expect from the male brains that enter the world of advertising.
THE no make-up look is a strategy INCORPORATED THE resistance of many young women
of painting their faces their feelings being that in accepting painting their faces they are accepting
a social identity that is not theirs
Shock in the Theatre can be belied or undermined
Raymond Williams has written about playwrights who on first appearance
are not conservative, the discourse fo the play may be advocating
rebellon, but the dramatic forms furniture and the maids stockings
that aim for a dramatic verisimilitude inevitable enforce on us
of the unalterable solidity of the real social world.
We desire what has been passed on from the 'Other' We desire what others, our parents etc
and 'desire' can only occur because we are caught up in the linguistic, sexual and social relations
the whole field of the 'other' which generate our desires.
We arrive at meaning, sometimes, with effortless bio, we tend overlook, or in some cases too esily disparage, the source of the meaning we are laying claim to.. But if we were to stop and endearvour
to look at the varied sources of the meaning we lay claim to...we may find how arbritary that source is
'for noting comes from nothing' (King Lear) what goes on is that that there is no origin to our
beloved meaning ....it came out , its birth came about through the another meaning as did that meaning and so on ad infinitum.
