Friday 28 December 2012

Organic nature viewed as "madness"

The ideology of the 1950s was along the lines that if anything was natural, it was probably suspect.  The imposition of science as a kind of straitjacket, and cultural mores as a kind of straitjacket, along with religion as a kind of straitjacket, were considered imperative.  You can see this ideology reflected in Jacques Lacan's writings, whereby the infant is considered "mad" until a straitjacket of convention is imposed on it.

The question is: Isn't that mad?

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