Re: it can't happen here....

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 22:54:03 BST

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    >From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: it can't happen here....
    >Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:34:11 +0100
    >
    >On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:42:19PM -0500, Scott Chase wrote:
    > > > >
    > > > > >I missed a couple of messages there, but I can tell you the
    >Freudian/
    > > > > >Adlerian/Jungian approach, generally refered to as dynamic
    > > >psychotherapy
    > > > > >or psychodynamic therapy, is alive and well in the UK.
    > > > > >
    > > > > >
    > > > > Watered down Nietzsche....all of it. Well, Fritz did have an impact,
    > > >which
    > > > > at least Jung would more openly acknowledge than Freud anyway.
    > > >
    > > >Did Nietzche say anything about the unconscious?
    > > >
    > > >
    > > Some of his ideas are related to the way others have explored the
    >concept of
    > > the unconscious in later works...
    >
    >Thanks a lot, Scott, very interesting. I knew about Groddeck -- I have The
    >Book of the It on my shelves. But he got "it" from Nietzche! Fascinating!
    >
    >
    Somehow the "it" became the "id". Perhaps a matter of translation resulting
    in a neologism?

    What's Groddeck's book like? Was his meaning very different from Freud's?
    From reading Ellenberger's book and also some notes in the intro to my copy
    of Freud's _The Ego and the Id_, I'm fairly sure some connection exists
    which bridges the thought of Freud, Groddeck, and Nietzche wrt the "id/it".

    I think sublimination may have been a Nietzschean concept. THere's also a
    consideration for where Schopenhauer and others fit in, but this history of
    philosophy stuff starts getting out of my league pretty fast. Ellenberger
    has been a fascinating read, but the subtilities of history and philosophy
    are quite hard to keep in line.

    From recent reading of Henri Ellenberger's book (_Discovery of the
    Unconscious_), I have had reinforced the possible connection between
    Nietzsche's Apollo and Dionysus archetypes and Freud's reality principle
    versus pleasure principle. IIRC Nietzsche based his dichotomy on
    Schopenhauer's representation versus will dichotomy. This, of course echoes
    Kant, but as descent with some modification on Schopenhauer's part.
    Interesting Schopenhauer utilized the Vedas or Upanishads, which might be
    more in your league than mine. I picked up on the veil of Maya notion from
    Schopenhauer.

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