Andre,
this is actually a damn good analysis.
-Tuukka
23.3.2012 22:48, Andre kirjoitti:
dmb to Marsha:
She is so lacking in self-awareness that she doesn't see her own
defensive anger as a rather transparent confession, but that's exactly
what it is.
Andre:
Excellent post dmb. I just thought I'd pick some issues out of it to
elaborate on it by providing, perhaps a slightly different perspective
but, in my view totally commensurate with the MOQ.
Lila is not, strictly speaking, 'lacking in self-awareness' but rather
her awareness of herself is defined in biological terms. What does
this mean? The biological level has 'emerged' from the inorganic
level. At this level there is, as yet, no idea of a social let alone
intellectual level. One's awareness, one's consciousness therefore is
restricted to the biological level. Everything and everybody is seen
in biological terms with biological connotations/intentions/wishes etc.
To put it in intellectual terms: the ego is still at the level of
'body-ego', more or less differentiated from the environment. Lila's
anger, of course, and her own 'rationalizations'(and justifications)
about her own 'state' are indications of her (pathological) attempt to
'transcend' to the social level(at least). Her paranoia is the
protection/indication and result of the failure of this attempt.
Then follows the quote after which you say:
"Marsha read this and finds great wisdom in Lila's words, as if her
denial of self were an indication of enlightenment."
Which, as you rightly point out it is not. Rather it is regression.
Lila cannot handle social membership, and because the intellectual is
never in view Lila doesn't know it and Marsha thinks she has gone
beyond it but the 'wisdom' found is only body-centric,
naturistic/narcissistic. It is pre-verbal, pre-personal, pre-mental.
Lila is "nobody", she is "not at home". She is a (n)ever-changing set
of static biological patterns of quality. Socially low,
intellectual-nowhere...and in desperate need of stability.
Of course Phaedrus wants to kill her. "Not the biological Lila, but
the static patterns that were really going to kill her if she didn't
let go". I think what Phaedrus means is that he wants to kill her (
sole) identification of herself with the biological level. To 'escape'
into Dynamic Quality i.e. die to this level, die to the sole
identification of the self with biology and transcend into the social
level (at least...one cannot skip levels as Aurobindo and many others
point out), assuming thereby an expanded (self) consciousness. It does
mean a 'birth' in the new and a death of (but including) the former.
I do hope this makes a little bit of sense. It sure has help me to
understand Marsha's defenses a bit better....not that that is an excuse!
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