03-14-2019, 11:59 PM
Random leftist musing of the day:
(Just had an attack of insight)
I read a quote by Slavoj Zizek (because he amuses me ), stating: "As a Marxist, I will tell you that when someone says that Lacan is difficult, it means they are your class enemy".
And it is kinda... right. Lacan's works, though actually quite psychoanalytically hermetic (made so on purpose by him, IIRC) - are filled with concepts that can be understood and explained in ways that do not demand "higher learning" in the ways of old-school psychoanalysis. So telling someone that "Lacan is too difficult for you" is actually an attempt at discouraging the person from learning what can be gleaned from his works (and it's a lot of very useful stuff). Same would apply to all other forms of knowledge and skill.
And this would perfectly explain the professional issues I've been having regarding my bardic practice. It's not a matter of skill, or "talent", or contacts, or socializing, or whatever - I am simply being rejected by the "singing class" because I've not been born and raised in it, or initiated by it at a young age. Apparently they see me as an outsider threatening their status and livelihood, and their hierarchical status quo. And the more someone identifies with the "singing class", the more severely they react according to this. Huh.
In other news, I have a date with one of my lovely responders tonight, we'll see how it develops.
(Just had an attack of insight)
I read a quote by Slavoj Zizek (because he amuses me ), stating: "As a Marxist, I will tell you that when someone says that Lacan is difficult, it means they are your class enemy".
And it is kinda... right. Lacan's works, though actually quite psychoanalytically hermetic (made so on purpose by him, IIRC) - are filled with concepts that can be understood and explained in ways that do not demand "higher learning" in the ways of old-school psychoanalysis. So telling someone that "Lacan is too difficult for you" is actually an attempt at discouraging the person from learning what can be gleaned from his works (and it's a lot of very useful stuff). Same would apply to all other forms of knowledge and skill.
And this would perfectly explain the professional issues I've been having regarding my bardic practice. It's not a matter of skill, or "talent", or contacts, or socializing, or whatever - I am simply being rejected by the "singing class" because I've not been born and raised in it, or initiated by it at a young age. Apparently they see me as an outsider threatening their status and livelihood, and their hierarchical status quo. And the more someone identifies with the "singing class", the more severely they react according to this. Huh.
In other news, I have a date with one of my lovely responders tonight, we'll see how it develops.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley