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lchic - 06:50am Jan 19, 2003 EST (# 7803 of 7811)
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repression - philosophy

Philosophy and Its Other--Violence: A Survey of Philosophical Repression From Plato to Girard Tobin Siebers

http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0102/siebers.htm

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=repression+philosophy&btnG=Google+Search

lchic - 07:02am Jan 19, 2003 EST (# 7804 of 7811)
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Repression | DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS For Identifying the Subject Matter of a Dream

Repression - a psychoanalytic term regarding a psychological resistance to acknowledge an uncomfortable memory or feeling. According to psychoanalytic theory, severe repression may result in anxiety or panic attacks. Adj. Repressive. http://anxiety-panic.com/dictionary/en-dictr.htm

Michel Foucault -

http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucau10.htm repressive hypothesis || A term that Focault introduces in the History of Sexuality. It is the view that truth is is repressed by a powerful force and that we can liberate ourselves by getting down to the truth. Foucault opposes the "repressive hypothesis" to "bio-technico-power (or bio-power). (Dreyfus and Rabinow, p. 127). The repressive hypothesis about sexuality is that western civilization has moved from a time of shameless sexuality to an era of repressed sexuality, restricted to the parents' bedroom. (Part 2 of the five part The History Sexuality is called The Repressive Hypothesis). The repressive hypothesis holds that sex is repressed because it is incompatible with the work ethic in the rise of capitlism during the last two centuries. In the repressive view of power "[All power] can do is forbid, and all it can command is obedience. Power, ultimately, is repression; repression, ultimately, is the imposition of the law; the law, ultimately, demands submission." (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p. 130)

repression | http://www.bartleby.com/61/42/R0164200.html

rshow55 - 07:57am Jan 19, 2003 EST (# 7805 of 7811)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Beautiful links on repression. Repression is a kind of switching mechanism - that permits an animal to act in the presence of a contradiction that would otherwise be unbearable. At the neurological level, it must be at least as old as the Age of Fishes.

People know a lot more than they admit they know - and a good thing, too. But when consequences are great enough - it is practically and morally important - every which way - for people to carefully, cautiously, but effectively face their fears - and face up to the things that they do - and know that they do.

I learned that very early - and learned some clinically and logically clear things about repression very early. I personally doubt it had anything to do with any genetic mutation on my part - my guess is that I'm just a fairly good human animal, as far as most standard things go. But I did get a lucky-unlucky break - as far as circumstances went. I believe that my parents loved me more than kids are usually loved - attended to me more perceptively than most parents do - had higher than usual standards - and some stresses on me got more than usually high. I had to face up to some very stark contradictions - matters of life and death - very early, and cope with them.

I was moved when lunarchick wrote this:

. Adults need secrets, lies and fictions.

. To live within their contradictions . .

It would have been MUCH easier for me, when I was a kid, if I'd been clearer about that.

If we can just face up to a little more - we can sort a lot of things out much better. And laugh a little more comfortably, in some better places.

Pardon me for moving slowly. I'm trying to be careful, and hit my marks.

lchic - 08:04am Jan 19, 2003 EST (# 7806 of 7811)
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America's 'good man' - Luther King became a MARK .... someone made a decision .... and now America has a 'LONG WEEKEND'

Was that vision, foresight or just conspiracy?

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