From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat 06 Mar 2004 - 07:21:42 GMT
Selfish gene enthusiasts might want to grok this one from Freud that, in its
very archaic way, touches on the issue of individuals as vehicles carrying
immortal coils. Freud says (BTW, I've sifted through a lot of silt for this
gold nugget so cut me some slack):
(bq)"The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed
to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he
serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own. The
individual himself regards sexuality as one of his own ends; while from
another point of view he is only an appendage to his germ-plasm, to which he
lends his energies, taking in return his toll of pleasure- the mortal
vehicle of a (possibly) immortal substance- like the inheritor of an
entailed property who is only the temporary holder of an estate which
survives him."(eq)
Granted this has been translated from the German by somebody named Cecil
Baines and I've no idea how the original reads compared to the translation,
but the use of words like mortal vehicle and immortal substance strikes me
as rather fascinating.
This quote is from Freud's "On Narcissism" (1914) as found on page 401 of
_The Major Works of Sigmund Freud_ (Great Books of the Western World (vol54)
1952/1986. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Chicago)
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