Response: Psychoanalysis Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-09 Thread Craven, Jim
Bill Lear wrote: So, our chains become part of us, and attempts to break the chains therefore hurt? They not only become part of us, they made us. Doug Very true, but does the fact that we can conceptualize and grasp that we are partly the product of the chains and backwardness that bind us

Re: Response: Psychoanalysis Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-09 Thread Doug Henwood
Craven, Jim wrote: Very true, but does the fact that we can conceptualize and grasp that we are partly the product of the chains and backwardness that bind us not suggest the possibility of transcendence or at least of not accepting such chains as limits or a fait accompli? Absolutely. If I

Re: Response: Psychoanalysis Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-09 Thread Brian McKenna
In a message dated 2/9/04 2:57:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It has been observed time and again how those recruited young and innocent to radical groups have defected once they felt the force of tradition. I know and quote this passage routinely, Doug (hey, out there,