Gold standard -(Was Nixonian currency)

[David Morris]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Agreed.  So where do you think 'gold' and the 'gold standard" lay within TRPs vision?  here in IV and elswhere...

Way back in V and GR his "vision" of the human condition (and
modern-man being the extreme case) was neurosis per Freud and NO
Brown.  The fetishes of V (replacement of living parts/beings with
inanimate objects) and GR (worship of the anti-phallus Rocket) are
manifestations of the analysis below.  I suspect he has moved on from
this stark analysis.  But this was clearly a part of his initial
inspiration.

David Morris


>> 281—The basic characteristic of sublimation is the desexualization of sexual energy by its redirection toward new objects. But as we have seen, desexualization means disembodiment. New objects must substitute for the human body, and thereis no sublimation without the projection of the human body into things; the dehumanization of man is his alienation of his own body. He thus acquires a soul (the higher spirituality of sublimation), but the soul is located in things. Money is “the world’s soul.”
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>> Norman O. Brown, "Life Against Death"
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>> http://www.psych-culture.com/docs/brown-life_against_death.pdf