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neden mutsuz olmak için bunca uğraş veriyordu?
jonathan lear - mutluluk, ölüm ve ýaşamın artakalanı
A person is, by his nature, out of touch with his own subjectivity. Thus one cannot find out what it is like for a person to be just by asking.
Jonathan Lear
'Transience' has caused me great distress—so much so that I feel guilty discussing it. But, while many are happy not to lay it onto the examining table, I'm willing to dissect the visceral discomfort it elicits in me right here in front of your eyes. I felt better for writing it; you might not feel better for reading it. This is your warning.
New post > Existentialism | Transience: Notes on Death
The anniversary of my father’s death, which has been ominously approaching since the turn of the year, has arrived; and I feel apprehensive.
Death is a fundamentally troubling topic for me. In writing about life’s brevity and unfairness through a very personal experience, though—in coming to acquiesce that death is inevitable and will always hurt me—I have offloaded some of my dread.
Anxiety about death is common. In On Transience Sigmund Freud recounted the following story about an existentially shaken poet (probably Rainer Maria Rilke):
‘Not long ago I went on a summer walk through a smiling countryside in the company of a taciturn friend and of a young but already famous poet. The poet admired the beauty of the scene around us but felt no joy in it. He was disturbed by the thought that all this beauty was fated to extinction, that it would vanish when winter came, like all human beauty and all the beauty and splendour that men have created or may create. All that he would otherwise have loved and admired seemed to him to be shorn of its worth by the transience which was its doom.’
Read more on The Human Front.
Required Reading: Year One, Spring Quarter
Abolition Democracy - Angela Davis
The Protest Psychosis - Jonathan M Metzl
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
Freud - Jonathan Lear
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
(not pictured: Mad Travelers by Ian Hacking)
dünyanın ona düş kırıklıklarını dayatmadığını, aktif olarak düş kırıklığının peşinden koşanın kendisi olduğunu kavramak onun için son derece afallatıcı bir tersine dönüş olmuştu. neden mutsuz olmak için bunca uğraş veriyordu?
sokrates’in temel sorusu (nasıl yaşayacağım?) çok masum görünse de gerçekte travmatiktir.
jonathan lear - mutluluk, ölüm ve yaşamın artakalanı
sokrates travma yaratıcı bir ayartıcıdır: yaşamın içinde tutmayı başaramayacağı bir mesajı tekrar tekrar yaşamın içine atmaktan suçludur.
jonathan lear - mutluluk, ölüm ve yaşamın artakalanı
Można zasadnie przypuszczać, że wrażliwy dziewięciolatek odczuwał lęk społeczności, w której żył i że mógł wyjaśnić coś, czego jeszcze nie potrafił pomyśleć. I rzeczywiście wyśnił to w imieniu całego plemienia. [...] Śnił w imieniu plemienia, a sen nadał tym lękom i obawom formę opowieści. [...] Wówczas, gdy był małym chłopcem potrafi przynieść Wronom z powrotem ich własny lęk, tyle, że w postaci narracji, którą można było opowiadać, powtarzać i interpretować. Starszyzna plemienia z kolei mogła tę narrację przekształcić w zrozumiałą, przytomną refleksję o wyzwaniach, z jakimi plemię będzie musiało się zmierzyć.
Sen - podobnie jak jego objaśnienie - był głęboko praktyczny. Mimo to nie polegał bynajmniej na bezpośrednim zastosowaniu praktycznego rozumu. Sen nakazywał oczekiwać czegoś, o czym nikt jeszcze nie potrafił myśleć. Problem plemienia polegał na tym, że Wrony nie wiedziały, czego mogą się spodziewać, lecz na tym, że brakowało im pojęć, aby tego doświadczyć. Sytuacja plemienia przypominała trochę położenie naukowców w przededniu rewolucji naukowej. Pojawiały się nowe wyzwania i rosła presja, by wyjaśnić te kwestie w tradycyjny sposób, lecz towarzyszyło temu nieokreślone poczucie, że dawne metody pozostawiają coś na uboczu. Brakowało pojęć by wyjaśnić to coś. Różnica polegała jednak na tym, że rewolucja naukowa dotyczyła wyłączenia teorii wyjaśniających świat, a wyzwanie, które stanęło przed Wronami, obejmowało wszystkie aspekty ich życia.
Jonathan Lear, Nadzieja radykalna. Etyka w obliczu spustoszenia kulturowego, s. 85-87
“Psychoanalysis, Freud once said, is a cure through love. On the manifest level, Freud meant that psychoanalytic therapy requires the analysand's emotional engagement with the analyst and the analyst's empathic understanding of his patient. But the latent content of this remark, which Freud only gradually discovered, and then through a glass darkly, is that psychoanalysis in its essence promotes individuation. In that sense, psychoanalysis is itself a manifestation of love. And the emergence of psychoanalysis onto the human scene must, from this perspective, be part of love's developmental history.”
—Jonathan Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature