Re: fort - da: an appropriation
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:10:14 -0500
AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> Ok, since I Can't Say That, I'll say that maybe the only "different kinds of
> thought" that exist are linguistic thought and non-linguistic thought. From
> what I've heard the most recent research on the brain makes the idea of the
> "subconscious" look like a fairy tale.
Non-linguistic thought is unthinkable. Quite literally impossible.
Perhaps what we are hung up on is definitions. One doesn't have to
speak any bit of a language to have thoughts, obviously. But one does
have to work with images, symbols--the methods of differentiation upon
which particular languages are predicated.
> But, of course, the fact that the field of science devoted to the study of
> the human mind abandoned psychoanalytic theory long ago doesn't keep our
> literary critics from keeping it well alive :)
People in the wide world of psychology still study Freud. And those
who claim they don't study Freud simply haven't yet realized (or been
told) that they still study Freud.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu