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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