12-07-2019, 03:26 PM
By the by, I've been meaning to write something I've come up using creepy uncle Lacan and my experiences for some time now, but I don't think I'll be going into too much detail (this would require a lengthy essay, if not a whole book, actually). But - the facts that fears, traumas or whatevers are coming to the forefront is not in itself a bad thing, but only if approached correctly.
Now, creepy uncle Lacan has a very mechanistic view of the unconscious even though it may not seem like it when you at first read him (I guess he *could have* just gone out and described the mechanisms explicitly, but nobody would have believed him at the time anyway; probably few would believe him even nowadays, I mean, he died in like, 1981, or so, so it's all still pretty fresh ). So, there's this one aspect of it that I would call the Subject - the Other relation. Without going into details on the entire shebang, it would appear that the subject only emerges and defines itself relatively towards an Other of some sort (we could go all hippy relativity and just call the Other "an Observer", and the Subject "the Observed", I guess). If there were no Other, there would be no need for the Subject to even come into existence. Now, in the situation of psychoanalysis, creepy uncle Lacan claims that the entire deal is about getting the analysand to express himself Subjectively, and getting the analyst to serve as a friendly Other who would help observe and analyze WTF.
But - and here's the trick - I believe this only serves as a prelude to self-analysis, in which the analysand gets his mind going and *begins to observe his subjectivity* on their own, becoming, at the same time the Subject and the Other - the Observer and the Observed at the same time - and this is when change can occur. So when shitty stuff comes up, you can start observing what comes up within your Subjectivity, become the Other in the particular thing that's come up, and thus attempt to redefine yourself as a Subject.
So that's what I've been trying to do lately when anything nasty and/or dumb appears to come up.
I guess that's what hippy wizards mean when they say "become a co-creator" and such.
Now, creepy uncle Lacan has a very mechanistic view of the unconscious even though it may not seem like it when you at first read him (I guess he *could have* just gone out and described the mechanisms explicitly, but nobody would have believed him at the time anyway; probably few would believe him even nowadays, I mean, he died in like, 1981, or so, so it's all still pretty fresh ). So, there's this one aspect of it that I would call the Subject - the Other relation. Without going into details on the entire shebang, it would appear that the subject only emerges and defines itself relatively towards an Other of some sort (we could go all hippy relativity and just call the Other "an Observer", and the Subject "the Observed", I guess). If there were no Other, there would be no need for the Subject to even come into existence. Now, in the situation of psychoanalysis, creepy uncle Lacan claims that the entire deal is about getting the analysand to express himself Subjectively, and getting the analyst to serve as a friendly Other who would help observe and analyze WTF.
But - and here's the trick - I believe this only serves as a prelude to self-analysis, in which the analysand gets his mind going and *begins to observe his subjectivity* on their own, becoming, at the same time the Subject and the Other - the Observer and the Observed at the same time - and this is when change can occur. So when shitty stuff comes up, you can start observing what comes up within your Subjectivity, become the Other in the particular thing that's come up, and thus attempt to redefine yourself as a Subject.
So that's what I've been trying to do lately when anything nasty and/or dumb appears to come up.
I guess that's what hippy wizards mean when they say "become a co-creator" and such.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley