society & streamings (was: Theatre/Theater)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Paul Mackin schrieb:

> I was only alluding to how Freud in his final writings warned
> against difficulties inherent in trying to analyze society or a particular
> culture such as the German pre-war culture--which P addresses himself
> to--as far as rooting out societal neuroses or pathologies is concerned.
> For Freud aggression was instinctual and individual. F didn't say
> positively don't draw analogies between societal and individual
> development--just said it would be difficult and that they
> would be mere analogies.  Post Freudians sometimes felt otherwise.

  against the so called post freudians like horney or fromm it was adorno (- 
  see: "zum verhältnis von soziologie und psychologie") who kept up freud's 
  implicitly radical view (- adorno: "what's true about psychoanalysis are the 
  exaggerations"). according to teddy's hegelian methodological approach there  
  is a  "in-sich-vermittelter widerspruch" (- about: "internally mediated 
  contradiction") between society and the human being. this contradiction is not 
  balanced, since society became - with the rise of functional differentiation - 
  more and more repressive in an autopoietic way. with the "exagerrations" of 
  psychoanalysis adorno means the revolutionary romanticism of the early   
  libido conception (- this most important part of the theory was later   
  eleborated by reich), which he conceived to be a "non-identical" resistance 
  potential, which can still be experienced by the alienated individual through 
  the help of authentic art & wild sex (- also through a certain way of   
  "remembering" thinking). this means for the research to do the sociological   
  part as sociological as possible (> the late marx) and the psychological part 
  as psychological as possible (> the early freud). against all that mediocre 
  "social psychology" i definitely prefer this negative dialectics of adorno. 
  today we can substitute marx by niklas luhmann. & we can substitute freud by 
  wilhelm reich ...
                              just follow your streamings! kfl

  ps: freud was also quite fond of shakespeare and of goethe. in "das 
  unheimliche" (- "the uncanny") he writes quite adequately about e.t.a.   
  hoffmann.