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

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Mike writes: >I think that we see a lot of this "immiseration"
around us and in the world at large (just look at the
posts on PEN-L), if not on the sidewalks of urban
centres of cities without safety nets, where
capitalism's casualties push shopping carts full of
cans and clothes.<

at least in CA, some of the homeless are more than just victims of capitalism. There's an 
additional twist. They are victims of Governor Reagan-era de-institutionalization, a result 
of an unholy alliance of right-wing and liberal anti-psychiatric feelings. People were dumped 
out of mental institutions, while the promised community support network was never financed.
 Now, of course, many are being re-institutionalized, receiving "treatment" in prison. 

Meanwhile, Reagan gets luxury treatment as the Fried Prince of Bel-Air. 

Jim Devine