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Distinction between the sadistic and normal character types:

Suggestibility in connection to the existential need for "a cohesive frame of orientation":

"Character" defined:

Existential emptiness as the source of the destructive impulse:

Character-conditioned passions linked to existential needs:

He said: "Stand back and stand by." https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-donald-trump-chris-wallace-0b32339da25fbc9e8...

At times I miss the spring fairies - but the demons had to go. Mystique provides inspiration - chanting Trumpsters at the heart of hystery decapitatin...

Also: A diminishing of the negative potency of the archetypes implies an ameliorative transformation of the unconscious. When mother is just plain old...

To my view a comprehensive amelioration of (yes, conscious) dreamstuff or dream themes implies a transformation or amelioration of the dynamics of the...

See the Interpretation of Dreams.

Frued posited dream content to be a surfacing of unconscious material.

But we do. If dreams are understood as a window into the unconscious, it's very much a possibility to refine or ameliorate dream content over time in ...

Shouldn't the Freudian revolution read: The mind is a very special and edifying substance in light of the wild and enriching depths of the unconscious...

More like: is a kind of luxury that most people cannot afford...

If you want to discuss this: ...you might start a thread in the politics section.

For the sake of argument: The innocent masses = folks who are easily manipulated The self-serving and devious = marketeers working in cahoots with psy...

If a nation has laws to protect the easily manipulated from a cahoots of the self-serving and devious, is that nation thereby not democratic? You seem...

For all his vision he hadn't the vision - can't blame him, of course - to forsee something like Facebook.

It has the optics of an abuse of power and that's always gross. It's unfortunate it can happen inadvertently.

Yep, well said :smile:

... Or more broadly about the various echo chambers and sins of convergent thinking in Academia at large.

This bit is fascinating enough: suggesting the most concrete-seeming creations may hide a secret abstraction: the inhuman in human form. Rich stuff.

I agree: a great prank that proves, at the very least, that distinguished folks at the journal in question can't always distinguish sense from non-sen...

Thanks for the quotes. I'll have to give them a close reading when I have time.

The Sokal Affair is relevant here, in case you haven't heard of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair "... an experiment to test the journa...

Sure, there are lots of good psychologists out there doing good work.

I like elusiveness of meaning but prefer some kind of possibly humanesque organ weirdly represented in the visual art I admire. I Googled the name and...

If I'm 100% certain there's a 50% chance, then I'm 100% correct that there's a 50% chance? If certain, then correct? That can't be right. I can be 100...

Words have the power to do what a mind has no power to do. So we continue to contrive formulations like the above. These words appear to present a que...

I don't quite get non-expressionist or non-subjective. Can a movement be alembicated to sterility?

If you like that one, Approximate Man would be your cup of tea. A hundred-plus pages of more or less sustained lucid illumination. Lyricless music was...

Not sure of what but you're likely right if it has to do with Derrida. I've only read three or four of his books.

The staff page corroborates my comment above: https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/members/staff

According to his profile and my experience Streetlight hasn't been a moderator for some time now.

Like I said: go read some more Derrida.

It's telling when a request for a substantiating quote is met with - "you should be banned." Admit you haven't read enough Derrida for this dialogue, ...

Odd, but if that's what he wants to discuss... :smile:

Fooling myself that you pivoted from Wayfarer's "extreme flux" and "fragmented" to your own "adequate for facilitating the transfer of digital data vi...

Nice pivot. But you can't fool me. :razz:

... Or are you playing the pre-1905 game here. Only way your comment makes anything approaching sense.

Seems so as the OP stipulates a pre-1905 purview.

Of course it is. Ludicrous to say it's not.

Wish I had time to watch it. I'll catch the highlights and the blooper reel.

I agree with that one. It's just a long wait for the People (in no way excluding myself) to put away childish things. Another millennium or two should...

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken

So it's a mental disorder? Would you recommend conversion therapy?

Always telling when a request for a substantiating quote is met with silence.

Tzara wrote some brilliant poetry. Playful at times but not so playful in Approximate Man: the bells ring for no reason and we too we walk to escape t...

The tend to be in cahoots with anti-regulation conservatives.