Re: Psychoanalysis Re: "happiness is a transitory state"

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:28:36 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>...
>Or, if you want to take it further, there's Judith Butler's argument
>- rooted in that silly doctrine called psychoanalysis - that subjects
>are formed in subjection (through deference to authority figures,
>like parents, and their successors, like language and law), and that
>attitude of deference to authority persists through life, for fear of
>the disintegration of the subject.

So, our chains become part of us, and attempts to break the chains
therefore hurt?


Bill