This is a huge point:
“That would be like a pilot going insane, under the bizarre delusion that the world doesn't exist and that his map IS the real world! Imagine that!”
And, of course, I had to bump against the containing walls of the theoretical postulates I had encountered in order to see their limits and in what directions they would lead me. I actually placed myself inside their confines as much as possible.
And what I found is that the ideology of Freudianism was constructed as by priests. In other words, every stage and every limitation that is BUILT INTO the paradigm utilizes stigma in order to keep you moving in a very prescribed and predefined direction. This is psychology functioning as ideology. Let me give an outline.
1. The early childhood stage is defined as “paranoid-schizoid” and (by Lacan) as “psychotic”.
2. The mature stage is defined by necessary alienation and a drop off of the powers of imagination.
3. However, the “depressive” secondary stage is viewed as necessary and superior to the first stage of maturation.
4. One lives out one’s adult life in a mode of unreality, always seeking ego inflation and having to be warned against it by the mechanisms of society, which function for your own good. But always you are hungry for gratification. You have an immature kernel and you ought not to be believed. You just have to conform and get with the programme.
5. You die, and if you psyche is in a good condition when you die, you leave a worthwhile legacy to humanity through your sacrifice and proper attention to your duty.
So, this is the map of psychoanalysis – and as you can see, built into it there are not escape routes, not exit points, not even fire exits. Obviously it is a paradigm created to keep very sinful and untrustworthy people on a particular prescribed and predetermined track.
But, one thing I also noticed. This paradigm disallows EVEN THE POSSIBILITY of clear and honest communication at any point on the developmental ladder. One is always delusional because under the sway of ego and its alleged goal of self-gratification. So nothing you say is TRUE and nothing can be communicated, apart from the weird self-serving delusions (considered delusionary precisely to the extent that they depart from the normality of social convention).
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And actually – apart from the priests – one need not see humanity in such a stark and hostile way. For instance, one does not deride oneself for wanting to eat lunch. It’s natural and normal to want satisfaction. There’s nothing sinful about this.
To want to eat, to want to become fatter, is perfect, so long as there is a counterbalance and plenty of exercise and rest.
Also, to communicate, even about those things that the priestly paradigm has nominated as ABJECT, is not a crime or a sin. One just has to realize that there has been priestly mislabelling.
“That would be like a pilot going insane, under the bizarre delusion that the world doesn't exist and that his map IS the real world! Imagine that!”
And, of course, I had to bump against the containing walls of the theoretical postulates I had encountered in order to see their limits and in what directions they would lead me. I actually placed myself inside their confines as much as possible.
And what I found is that the ideology of Freudianism was constructed as by priests. In other words, every stage and every limitation that is BUILT INTO the paradigm utilizes stigma in order to keep you moving in a very prescribed and predefined direction. This is psychology functioning as ideology. Let me give an outline.
1. The early childhood stage is defined as “paranoid-schizoid” and (by Lacan) as “psychotic”.
2. The mature stage is defined by necessary alienation and a drop off of the powers of imagination.
3. However, the “depressive” secondary stage is viewed as necessary and superior to the first stage of maturation.
4. One lives out one’s adult life in a mode of unreality, always seeking ego inflation and having to be warned against it by the mechanisms of society, which function for your own good. But always you are hungry for gratification. You have an immature kernel and you ought not to be believed. You just have to conform and get with the programme.
5. You die, and if you psyche is in a good condition when you die, you leave a worthwhile legacy to humanity through your sacrifice and proper attention to your duty.
So, this is the map of psychoanalysis – and as you can see, built into it there are not escape routes, not exit points, not even fire exits. Obviously it is a paradigm created to keep very sinful and untrustworthy people on a particular prescribed and predetermined track.
But, one thing I also noticed. This paradigm disallows EVEN THE POSSIBILITY of clear and honest communication at any point on the developmental ladder. One is always delusional because under the sway of ego and its alleged goal of self-gratification. So nothing you say is TRUE and nothing can be communicated, apart from the weird self-serving delusions (considered delusionary precisely to the extent that they depart from the normality of social convention).
***
And actually – apart from the priests – one need not see humanity in such a stark and hostile way. For instance, one does not deride oneself for wanting to eat lunch. It’s natural and normal to want satisfaction. There’s nothing sinful about this.
To want to eat, to want to become fatter, is perfect, so long as there is a counterbalance and plenty of exercise and rest.
Also, to communicate, even about those things that the priestly paradigm has nominated as ABJECT, is not a crime or a sin. One just has to realize that there has been priestly mislabelling.
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