XPost: alt.postmodern, alt.philosophy   
   From: jusuk@travel-diarySPAMOFF.de   
      
   "mimus"  wrote in message   
   news:15of9tkqffy7t$.1tn9xlv1jfg87$.dlg@40tude.net...   
   > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:42:47 -0800, Stu wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2005-11-25 11:32:41 -0800, "Wordsmith"    
   >> said:   
   >>   
   >>> I almost already agree with you.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> W ; )   
   >>   
   >> Most of it stems from the publish or perish syndrome.  Deconstruction   
   >> and structuralism provides a jargon for those in the humanities to use   
   >> in filling their monthly journals with intellectual treatise.   
   >>   
   >> After all how many papers can be written about the symbolic imagery in   
   >> Dickens?  Deconstruction gives the literary critic the cover of doing   
   >> something important, something almost anthropological.   
   >   
   > I wonder if there's any direct relationship of descent from Freud's very   
   > similar frauds.   
   >   
   > First, of course, was that of the "latent content" of dreams (he said   
   > dreams were wish fulfillments, and that dreams the "manifest content" of   
   > which was obviously not wish fulfillment-- eg, nightmares-- had "latent   
   > content", any interpretation that would make it wish fulfillment).   
   >   
   > And he followed that one up with the much more successful "unconscious" or   
   > "subconscious mind", "analysis" of which allows the "analyst" to attribute   
   > any desires or motives wanted or needed to the "patient", whose   
   > disagreement with such "finding" is then interpreted as "resistance" or   
   > "denial" and another "symptom" of "mental illness".   
   >   
      
   Definetly applies to analytical philosophy in many peoples opinion. What a   
   great article. Very funny as well.   
      
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