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Re: Seibo, agreed. Reading his China travelogue (tho its more than that), Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens helped me make some sense of it. ...

Isn't he great? My favorite is War&War which I'm guessing you're close to getting around to - but I haven't read Melancholy (I own it, but I'm on a se...

How do you like Krasznahorkai?

sorry, if I've offended. My answer was not intended to be dismissive. I'm not sure how else to answer your question.

I'm not sure in your case, everyone has their own.

Yes, I agree with your picture. I think philosophy's wrong to think it knows more about the function of the 'thing-in-itself' than others. A lobsterma...

why fixed?

Because it's there. You're 'obliged' to accept what's there. You don't really have a choice. You can take any sort of attitude toward those aspects of...

in the same way the fisherman accepts that there is something beyond fish, or methods for catching fish. theres the ocean.

bc im out i dont have time to respond in detail and in a way adequate to this thread : but id want to note that there is a robust philosophical tradit...

So much to say. I resonate with almost all of what you've said, including: Though for me it was - and occasionally still is - alcohol. And sometimes a...

I'm really glad some of my posts have been therapeutic for you. It's been good for me to write them out, but I've also worried about how helpful they ...

It's funny though. I've been reading Kalsched's book - there's a common theme in the therapeutic process where sufferers of trauma, just as they begin...

Excellent read. The part that haunts me the most is this : "The irony of trauma is that even though it happens so deeply inside a single person, so qu...

but im realizing I've still left unsaid the point about contempt folding back on itself. I guess I haven't figured that out yet

I think one of the most difficult things about extreme mood swings is that the really bad part is always appraised in light of the really good state. ...

I've been thinking a lot about this. This kind of goes back to the stuff about repetition compulsion, and the same psychological or affective impulse ...

yeah, this is it. I can especially relate to the feeling of having to 'protect others' from yourself and your ideas. To keep the Dante theme going, I ...

Yes exactly. The 'hiding' of 'sin' creates this weird symmetrical structure. The more I hide my indiscretions from myself and others, the more I suspe...

Yep! I've heard of ketamine and studies about its efficacy for treating depression. It seems like a very interesting and hopeful avenue.

I'm sorry - I wasn't posting with the intent of upsetting you, but I can see how the way I responded was callous. I'm trying not to respond to the sto...

I've had an experience perhaps similar, in some ways, to the one @"All sight" described. The first time I was hopsitalized I was 19. I was working at ...

Those are good points. I feel like I put you in a weird position, 'at-ing' you, as though I was calling upon you to defend or buttress my post. I didn...

But saying he was being fucking unreasonable is aggressive, no matter what your background. His response does sound aggressive. Like I was saying to w...

Tho actually - I think that this: is at the heart of it, what lets you move beyond. I remember at one point while i was deep in 'phase ii' geting drun...

Yeah, this was me my first couple years of therapy. I imagine I was very frustrating to work with. I had a theory of what was ailing me. I think the i...

One last thing regarding signs. I may have quoted this on the boards before but - "The reshimu is the consciousness of knowing that one has “forgotten...

I haven't looked at spurs! What is the umbrella thing? I've heard reference to it, a few times, but still have no idea what its about. If you're down ...

This is a good point. Speaking of Hegel - I think, if you read Husserl in terms of Phenomenology of Spirit, Husserl would be doing something like: try...

That seems like a fair, perhaps fairer, reading. Maybe its something of both? I'm thinking of something I quoted in my thread about trauma, where a th...

yeah in spades. He was often convinced he was going to hell. Very preoccupied with doing the right stuff to prevent that. Then falling into despair. T...

We had a Speech and Phenomenon reading group here a while back. I don't know how well I remember it. The thing I most remember is that, perhaps approp...

Did my therapist you mean?

It sounds like a difficult experience, but I do want to challenge the way you've framed it. You say first that his response stemmed from a disgust at ...

Yeah, I think scrupulosity stems from a similar place. Have you read much about Luther?

I can relate to a lot of what you describe, especially the parasitic aspect. I was particuarly bothered, as a kid, by certain representations of paras...

For what its worth, here's my recounting of the LSD experience, as texted to my friend: i had a weird lsd experience last night. very fluid sense of s...

Exactly. This has been what has most hamstrung me in both therapeutic and romantic relationships. There's something to if of that thing Sartre says ab...

That's awesome - I'm very much a believer in the reality of grace, and that it can visit itself upon people in many different ways. I don't want to pr...

My take on solipsism is that its less a philosophical issue than an emotional one (there are no canonical philosophers who were solipsists, as far as ...

That's true. I take some comfort in the fact that Kalsched's book is based only partially on his studies, but equally (if not more so) on his own ther...

Agreed. My biggest obstacle in life has been my inability to trust, as well as to feel myself trustworthy. Trust is the bedrock of community, and I th...

I haven't read too far, but one thing Kalsched talks about is a safe therapeutic environment, where there is a mutual relationship of trust, a relatio...

I think that's spot on. Kalsched's take is that the type of defence he's talking about is a double-trauma. First there is the external event. The crea...

'get out of yer head' ,yes, but in some ways that's like telling someone with anorexia to 'stop distorting your body perception.' Again, yes, but that...

I think I'm about to devour his books. From what I understand, the one this is taken from, The Inner World of Trauma, is essentially an attempt to cre...

'theory of mind,' as rei is clearly using the term, doesn't refer to a generic theory. its a pretty well-known psychological term with a precise meani...

Hegel's 'Beautiful Soul' is a (stage of the) soul which acts as though outside of the world, condemning the world i.e. 'sitting in comfort to declare ...

yeah exactly. Beautiful Soul. The content of Owens' poem is powerful and right. The role of someone who agrees with Owens is sublimated 'good boys get...

It does seem right to me, but then again 'will' is such a loose term, even without taking into consideration semantic drift (Kant was writing in Germa...