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Oh we're going to discuss Juliette and Culture Industry chapters

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It's in the substack somewhere, if you look back far enough. December 28...looking forward to it...

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Just checking - next F Scale Reading Group is 08:30 am PST? Which would be 11:30 am EST, on Sun Dec 31st. This is fine here. Looking forward! All the best in China now.

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Walked into an anarchist bookstore here in Berlin and D&E was sitting right there , looking forward to jumping in! Was there any notes from the last zoom?

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Thank you for today! After reading that kind of wordy/empty Butler article you linked, I found a more recent one by Jacqueline Rose that I think(?) echoes some of the focus of this group. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/jacqueline-rose/you-made-me-do-it

She writes:

"To put it another way, in order to exit this nightmare, we need, alongside the struggle for justice and as part of it, to bring psychoanalytic understanding to the negotiating table. One thing seems clear. None of this will just disappear if we ignore it. You cannot dream the unconscious away. In fact, there is a link between the birth of this conflict and the lifework of Sigmund Freud, where psychoanalysis begins. It is surely no coincidence that at the moment when nationalism and empire entrenched themselves across the world’s surface, enforcing and permitting forms of expansive, narcissistic confidence that would eventually destroy beyond repair the capacity of earth to survive, psychoanalysis, as a form of counter-speech, was laying bare the radical uncertainty and insecurity that, deep down, characterise every human subject’s relationship to themselves. In order to halt what feels like the unstoppable cruelty in which this conflict is caught, we need to resolve the ongoing injustice against the Palestinian people, while also attending to this inner psychic dimension. A new dispensation will involve loosening the knots of the mind in order to create a world in which everyone is granted a due portion."

Maybe unsurprising given my question about buddhism today (which wasn't - at least wittingly - a claim to its superiority) - my only comment is why the primacy of psychoanalysis to describe issues related to the "inner psychic dimension"? not much to say beyond this, yet -- curious if others have comments or thoughts on this piece and its reference to Freud.

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