tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3426287516393408240..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: When Social Skills AtrophyStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20111425173328982252020-09-08T00:45:22.873-07:002020-09-08T00:45:22.873-07:00
In my book The Anti-Oedipus Complex (Routledge 20...<br />In my book The Anti-Oedipus Complex (Routledge 2017), I described the drift towards the infantile in Western culture under ten headings. 1) Excess of hate over love often turned against the self. 2) Retreat from Otherness of the other sex and the other generation, in favour of the self and the Same. 3) Rejection of and hatred for authority of any kind. 4) Predisposition to pre-Oedipal aims, infantile, demanding,“relating” to part objects. 5) The imaginary and the virtual displace the Symbolic register. 6) The notion of “complex” implies a certain pseudo-stability, even an intense resistance to change. 7) Disavowal of reality, leading to borderline phenomena. 8) The replacement of the Ego Ideal and social values in favour of the tyrannical and narcissistic Ideal Ego on the one hand and archaic superego on the other. 9) Failure to initiate and/or maintain relationships and the social bond. 10) Indifference to these developments. I would suggest that all these features have been increased by Covid and the social restrictions applied. Rob Weatherillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-1959539315228806762020-09-02T17:55:27.216-07:002020-09-02T17:55:27.216-07:00I've been informally observing this for a whil...I've been informally observing this for a while now. It's fascinating. The lockdowns, masks, and "social distancing" have achieved Erich Honecker's social objectives without the help of an institutional Stasi.trigger warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31301862020130307092020-09-02T11:17:25.517-07:002020-09-02T11:17:25.517-07:00I find this just a bit of a stretch. Any opportuni...I find this just a bit of a stretch. Any opportunity for even minimal practice of basic social skils should keep them reasonably intact. How hard are the basics, anyway? Good morning, thank you, please, It's good to see you, and so on. Start from a smile and friendly language and things should go well. But then I live in a state where we weren't threatened with being cast into outer darkness for appearing in public. I will admit I told the nice person at the door of the big box home center no pretty firmly when asked, " Would you like a mask, sir? " But that was because of the mask uselessness, not rudeness.urbane legendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699110758399432397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66754006299552476222020-09-02T10:55:42.459-07:002020-09-02T10:55:42.459-07:00This partly depends, surely, on whether one is in ...This partly depends, surely, on whether one is in a comfortable house with a yard OR a tiny apartment. Also one who...if anyone...one is living with.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82438564380133748622020-09-02T10:28:09.982-07:002020-09-02T10:28:09.982-07:00At home, in isolation, I read Tacitus, Livy, and A...At home, in isolation, I read Tacitus, Livy, and Aristotle. I am fulfilled. I lift weights and hit a heavy bag and take apart and reassemble weapons. I built a new wing on the house. I am strong and self sufficient. I have a lot of sex.<br /><br />In the social domain, I am subjected to TDS, movies based on comic books, sportzball, and discussions about self-help therapy books and white fragility. I have to listen to wahmen complain about other wahmen. I eat junk at restaurants and get fat and weak. I watch Netflix with ice cream and fall asleep instead of having sex.Giordano Brunonoreply@blogger.com