/lit/ - Literature

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>>12171851
i've been thinking about this lately, i dont know how to reconcile it b/c im guilty of this

>>12130515
I don’t think there is a single person alive that really sees the big picture behind everything you listed. the amount of time it would take you to read upon on all those subjects and their interconnections... after you finished you’d be in another era again. imo all of those problems or issues pale in comparison to incoming climate disruption. There won’t be bread and circuses around long enough to keep people sedated and the system running. Most of what you listed will seem trivial a few decades down the line.

>>11978005
>Freud’s psychoanalysis presumes the negativity of repression and negation. As Freud emphasizes, the unconscious and repression are correlated “to a very great extent.” No process of repression and negation is involved in modern-day psychic afflictions such as depression, burnout, and ADHD, in contrast. Actually, they point to an excess of positivity: not to negation but rather to the inability to say no, not to that which isn’t allowed but to the ability to do everything. Thus psychoanalysis cannot broach them. Depression doesn’t result from repression on the part of controlling entities such as the superego. In depressives, this “transference”—which would provide indirect clues to repressed psychic content—doesn’t occur.

>With its ideas of freedom and deregulation, present-day achievement society is abolishing wholesale those barriers and prohibitions that characterized the disciplinary society. The abolition of negativity bolsters performance. A general limitlessness and dissolution of barriers ensues, a veritable state of general promiscuity, which exerts no repressive energy. Where the release of instinctual impulses is not hindered by restrictive sexual mores, paranoid delusions also do not occur, such as those suffered by Daniel Paul Schreber, which Freud traced back to his repressed homosexuality. The Schreber case is typical of the nineteenth century disciplinary society, where a strict prohibition of homosexuality and even desire prevailed.

>Freud understands melancholia as a destructive relationship to the other that is internalized as part of the self through narcissistic identification. The original conflict with the other is internalized and transformed into an adversarial relationship to the self, which leads to impoverishment of the ego and auto-aggression. The contemporary achievement-subject’s depression is not preceded by an adversarial, ambivalent relationship to the other, which is lost. The dimension of the other plays no part in it. Instead, its strained, overdriven, excessive self-reference takes on a destructive character, contributing to the depression in which burnout so often culminates. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject wears itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, by the war with itself. Completely incapable of stepping outside itself, of being outside, of depending on the other or on the world, it becomes engrossed in itself, which paradoxically leads to the hollowing out and emptying of the self. It commits itself to an ever-accelerating hamster wheel within itself.

-- Han/Topology of Violence

my man