GRGR NOB / schiz grist

[Glenn Scheper]

> Norman O Brown - schizophrenics might be saner than those
> without the disease - Life Against Death - Love's Body

I found two good urls:

http://www.nlpanchorpoint.com/ARTbolstad1.htm

 Schizophrenia (a la NLP):
 1) Living in castles in the air:
 2) Not Thinking About Thinking:
 (not metacommenting and metamodelling)
 3) Missing Social Subtleties:
 4) Other Symptoms:

 Schizophrenics,
 on the other hand,
 when asked to imagine alien voices repeating hallucinatory
 messages,
 do not activate this monitoring area of the brain.
 This suggests that the brain of a person with schizophrenia
 fools him or her into thinking that an internal message is
 coming from the outside.

 so called schizophrenics,
 especially during their initial crisis,
 almost always are preoccupied with the meaning of life,
 God,
 love,
 and their own personal identity,
 often with cataclysmic implications about the end of the
 world or the disintegration of their own personalities.

 their metaphorical communication and behaviour can be
 understood as conflicts or confusion about…identities,
 values and aspirations rather than as biological
 aberrations. In a sense,
 the issues which the person is struggling with are
 meta-commenting issues.

 schizophrenic communication itself can be thought of as
 metaphorical

 The ability of psychotic clients to 'pick up' anxiety or
 incongruity in therapists and others (their sensory acuity)
 is well known.


http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/psychoanalytic_theory_and_criticism-_2.html

(for later...)
 Klein hypothesized the existence of a pre-Oedipal phase (or
 "position" in her terminology) in which children introject
 their first object, the breast, splitting it into ideal and
 persecutory (or "good" and "bad") modes

 orthodox academic or clinical interpretations of Freud
 colluded with the forces of repression by emphasizing the
 necessity to adapt to societal norms that were by
 definition sick

 [Brown]
 argues that psychoanalysis must situate itself inside the
 larger tradition of Occidental and Oriental mysticism,
 which he valorizes in works of Christian gnosticism,
 Jewish cabalism,
 Taoism,
 Boehme,
 Blake,
 Rilke,
 and dissident psychoanalytic theorists.

 Brown analyzes Protestantism,
 the scatological poems of Jonathan Swift,
 and the representation of money in literature.

 he holds that the Lutheran equation of the world with the devil,
 born of the link between money and excrement, anticipates his own
 indictment of a world given over to the death instinct

 Brown's intent in Love's Body is to pursue to its logical
 conclusion the "way out"
 briefly sketched at the end of Life Against Death.
 The path to the realization of his hypostasized absolute
 unity is traced through psychological,
 historical,
 and social stages,
 beginning with a perception of separateness and the
 repression of political society,
 through intellectual rebellion to the achievement of
 fulfillment,
 freedom,
 and--perhaps ominously--nothingness.

 Since Love's Body Brown has persevered in the critical
 trajectory he has always followed.
 Closing Time continues the mosaic technique of Love's Body,
 this time juxtaposing the life and work of Giambattista
 Vico with James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in an effort to
 disclose in each writer a cyclical eschatology that aims at
 the saying of some ultimate word.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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