Re: [Fwd: Re: 7 years old Iranian genius] (fwd)

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What school of thought originated or discovered the unspeakable longing ?

Charles Brown

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 05/02/99 02:08PM >>>
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>Doug essentializes and naturalizes internalized societal goals. Peter
>>Berger would be so proud.
>
>>Andy
>
>i think so. katha does the same when she sympethatically asks to doug "do
>you miss religion, btw?" or when she romanticizes women's attendence in
>church and so forth...

I don't see how that essentializes or naturalizes anything. Seems quite the
opposite, actually - very subjectivizing.

As for AWA's comment, I made it quite clear that I didn't know how
historical or transhistorical that unspeakable longing is. From the
evidence of literature and art, it goes back at least as far as writing and
representation. I also made it clear that I think it takes many forms, from
the longing for God to the longing for a Coke. What precisely is
essentialized or naturalized about something so plastic?

Doug