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In a message dated 96-04-21 20:30:00 EDT, Jonathan Ames writes:

Finally, I wonder how the erotics of the wish for conscious interpretation of the unconscious response compare to that of the wish to control and eradicate insanity as a threat to humanity. Perhaps the difference between the shamanic and the scientific is essentially erotic -- and therefore, practically speaking, unarguable.

Jonathan:
Since *the erotic* may be understood to prevail in tandem with *the thanatic* as radix and final cause, would not "the wish to control and eradicate insanity as a threat to humanity" be the euphemistic dressing for a wish to control and eradicate death?

Bernard X. Bovasso

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In a message dated 96-04-21 20:30:00 EDT, Jonathan Ames writes:

Finally, I wonder how the erotics of the wish for conscious interpretation of the unconscious response compare to that of the wish to control and eradicate insanity as a threat to humanity. Perhaps the difference between the shamanic and the scientific is essentially erotic -- and therefore, practically speaking, unarguable.

Jonathan:
Since *the erotic* may be understood to prevail in tandem with *the thanatic* as radix and final cause, would not "the wish to control and eradicate insanity as a threat to humanity" be the euphemistic dressing for a wish to control and eradicate death?

Bernard X. Bovasso

human-nature.com © Ian Pitchford and Robert M. Young - Last updated: 28 May, 2005 02:29 PM