There is a linguistic theory proposed by Louis Hjelmslev and developed further into the philosophy of expression by Deleuze and Guattari. Accordingly,...
It would be a mistake to represent acquiring language by babies as the result of fulfilling a recognized need. (Does a child grows up because she want...
Definitely, babies have kind of selfhood before learning a language. Psychologists even differentiate few different selves, acquired by a preverbal ch...
It looks like you try to represent one particular moment in human history as the universal one. In the vast majority of known cultures “awareness of s...
Daniel Stern in his book The Interpersonal World of the Infant proposed a theory of emerging Self and related states of developing consciousness - he ...
Walking on the street is a good introductory example of an acting subjectivity. Next example could be driving a car, when a driver is not just interac...
The “old,” personifying discourse (roles, subjects, objects, etc.) has not been appropriate today. Nevertheless, intersubjective, conscious relations ...
Is that possible to try to broaden farther the notion of trauma to explain child’s integration into pedagogical institutions? When a child for the fir...
For a long time the so-called “Russian roulette,” a dangerous, deadly game, has been an extreme way to recognize the value of life and start thinking ...
You are right in everything, no doubt that new generations will be doing well without the serious novel and other cultural forms will be invented. I j...
It could be more productive to narrow down an overinflated field of contemporary psychology to attempt to trace the genealogy of psychoanalysis and ps...
It looks like you try “to catch up” psychology, to point out its inconsequence, to attribute it some “intentions.” Nietzsche’s “will to power,” Foucau...
As far as I see it, Kierkegaard’s tremendous effort and genius, aimed to save Christianity were not productive – especially after Nietzsche. Kierkegaa...
It is a common sense definition. One could apply it to Nietzsche himself, or to Dostoevsky or Kafka’s heroes,(are they narcissists?) asserting that th...
It is possible to attempt to apply some of Kierkegaard’s concepts from his book “Repetition, the essay on experimental psychology,” as well as Deleuze...
It would be a mistake to represent philosophy vs. psychology relations anthropomorphically: patronage, partnership, divorce, and competition; experime...
It is difficult to find out why Plato chose this literary form of his works, where the author is entirely hidden, overshadowed by his hero. Yet, Kierk...
I think that you contradict yourself. From one side, you provide a long list of supposedly real facts and motivations regarding Kavanaugh vs. Ford sit...
Thank you for the good points! I think what deserves our attention and analyses is the situation when both Kavanaugh and Ford acted, played and perfor...
Indeed, in Periclean Athens, leading politicians (including Pericles himself) took part in a kind of spectacle, political theatre. Yet, there was an e...
I agree with you, just want to add that the constellation “There is the writer, the content, and a specific didactic form: the authority of one who sp...
I think that most of my disagreement with others about the situation with literature, the novel, and reading has been rooted in the incorrect use of t...
You are right in stating the objective facts as they are. Much more difficult to imagine the world where the book (you call it" print") was the primar...
I think that the explosion of texting and social networking chatting as the smooth, familiar and enjoyable way of communicating and expressing one’s i...
Authors are not able to compete with the directors and actors in shaping people minds, regardless of the authenticity of their thoughts. Jeffrey Nealo...
Don DeLillo lays out in his novel" Mao 2": “The novel used to feed our search for meaning… It was the tremendous secular transcendence. The source of ...
Will Self:" In the early 1980s, and I would argue throughout the second half of the last century, the literary novel was perceived to be the prince of...
I agree with you. But the point is that literature, authors, their critics, book's reading have lost their privileged position in our culture, they do...
Historically, the book not always has mediated the relationship with self. For example, for ancient Stoics and Epicureans, the spoken word of a teache...
I am quite surprised; I think that ”essential insights into the nature of humankind” have become meaningless. “To all those who still wish to talk abo...
Why conservative? I would say - realistic. Do you know anybody, who is reading “Don Quixote” or “Peace and War”? I do not know. Though, very few class...
It is not a matter of nostalgia, and definitely, the digital age provides us with a lot of new possibilities. The problem is that the practices of rea...
Many writers think that serious literature is going to become extinct under the market’s pressure. Thus, Will Self pointed out: “There is one question...
"It is important to understand that the possibilities, however, limited, of manipulation and of the suspicion of manipulation, which is sometimes exag...
There are tremendous gaps between 3 facts about “a fire in a department store downtown” – 1) when I learn it from you, 2 )when I watch news about it, ...
According to Nikolas Luhmann, even when mass media look like reporting the essential news, first of all, they reproduce their own self-referential com...
Deleuze and Guattari developed their theory of philosophical cartography, they radically contrasted mapping with tracing: “Make a map, not a tracing. ...
"We are not in the presence of a passively representative image, but of a vector of subjectivation. We are actually confronted by a non-discursive, pa...
One's judgment related to this project cannot be separated from one's movement generated by a creation of the new cartography, and this movement is si...
In principle, the rhetoric of the right is inseparable from the rhetoric of the left. And, if so, the topic of this thread should be considered in a b...
It is possible to assume that the rational and ideological modii of public discourses function just as a supportive disguise - the real goal is to mob...
It looks like Levinas's ethics does not work anymore...The relation of self to oneself has changed dramatically, it is mediated by numerous collective...
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