MDDM - Boundary Lines

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 18 21:31:17 CST 2001


"Psychoanalysis can be used to uncover the principle of union, or communion, 
buried beneath the surface separations, the surface declarations of 
independence, the surface signs of private property.  Psychoanalysis also 
discloses the pathology of the process whereby the the normal sense of being 
a self separate from the external world was constructed.  Contrary to what 
is taken for granted in the lunatic state called normalcy or common sense, 
the distinction between self and external world is not an imutable fact, but 
an artificial construction.  It is a boundary line:  like all boundaries not 
natural but conventional;  like all boundaries, based on love and hate."

N.O. Brown, "Love's Body" (1966), reprint UC Press, 1990, p.142

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