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Black Skin, White Language, One Person
You cannot think without a language. Every action of the mind is created with a form of a language. It follows that the greater control and knowledge of language you possess, the better you will be able to think. Furthermore, if you are able to spread that language, you will be more powerful. Your ideas […]
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Fanon: Interesting theories, potential over-simplifications?
While it is impossible to deny that Fanon brings up some compelling points about the impacts of cultural assimilation, I find myself inclined to disagree with some of his generalizing statements. Firstly, when Fanon states that, “a normal Negro child, having … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Freud: Science and Psychology
Last seminar, a heated discussion arose about the nature of psychology, and whether or not it is in fact a science. I called it a pseudo-science, much to the insult of several of my classmates. After many interesting discussions and … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Keep Fighting!
To go back briefly to the topic of Zombies, as we finish up reviewing those essays; I recently remembered a quote:E.E. Cummings wrote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fig… Continue reading →
Keep Fighting!
To go back briefly to the topic of Zombies, as we finish up reviewing those essays; I recently remembered a quote:E.E. Cummings wrote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fig… Continue reading →
Keep Fighting!
To go back briefly to the topic of Zombies, as we finish up reviewing those essays; I recently remembered a quote:E.E. Cummings wrote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fig… Continue reading →
Freud – Dora an analysis of a case of Hysteria
Freud’s work has always fascinated me, even before reading this particular text because it deals with the individual and then …
A Note on Freud
Through a reading of Dora’s confession, a set of general oppositions can be deduced: Men (active – dominant – external – objective) and Women (passive – submissive – internal – subjective). What characterizes these oppositions based on fundamental biological differences is not merely an asymmetrical antithesis between male and female, but a more insidious opposition […]
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A Note on Freud
Through a reading of Dora’s confession, a set of general oppositions can be deduced: Men (active – dominant – external – objective) and Women (passive – submissive – internal – subjective). What characterizes these oppositions based on fundamental biological differences is not merely an asymmetrical antithesis between male and female, but a more insidious opposition […]Continue reading →
The Modern Day Freud Debunked
I was very pleased with this weeks reading assignment of Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, for besides my love of English, I adore Psychology. I have been learning Freud from a psychological perspective since some time in … Continue reading → Continue reading →
