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

[Joel Blau <jblau@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, following the  Frankfurt School, the search for the "good  father" produces
submissiveness  (a.ka. false consciousness), a desire to be protected from
external threatening forces (Bush's invocation of terrorists), and rage at
anyone who would end the possibility of repairing the damage inflicted during
childhood.

Joel Blau 

Bill Lear wrote:
> 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
>
>