>p only if q..Can you really just apply logic like that to the unconscious? Is it feasible to use math and psychology together, would it even "compute"?
>>16812678Well, as my own textbook case I must mildly disagree with Freud here ...
>>16812678its contrapositive, the name's modus tolems i believe. and yes, it works.
>"I don't know why I'm afraid of spiders, but they freak me out. What does it mean?" Got me; problem solved. "But wait a second, stupid, I'm still afraid of spiders." No, stupid, that's not the problem, it's the defense.Damn
>>16812952i don't understand what I am reading here. What does he mean by "Got me problem solved"? How has he solved the problem of knowing why by not answering? This reads like milennial slop>>16812952
>>16815903a common thesis of Alone is that we use knowledge as a defense against action>How has he solved the problem of knowing whyI read it as because wanting to know why is how you get out of doing, you use your fear of X to dig deep into yourself instead of looking at how you use it to get out of doing things you don't want to do or think about, to focus on what it means instead of what you get out of it; but I'm not as eloquent nor as smart, and any attempt I make of putting it into better words would fail, I'm still stumped by other things like knowing How to wantFor reference here's footnote 10
In short he talks about how we're fucked because we pretend to want power but in reality we need an "other" that has all the power so that then we can both fool it into saying we have value, and since we can't enjoy anything but depriving another, enjoy depriving It of ourselvesIt doesn't sound as interesting when I say it, granted
