Freud, Zizek, eros and thanatos

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Life (the world) cannot be more complicated (complex) than a descriptive 
framework because complication (complexity) is a property of frameworks, not 
life or the world. Just as life is not written in English, it is neither 
complicated nor simple. Only our descriptions or descriptive frameworks are 
complicated or simple.

Perhaps your point is more like the following?

"As we all know but won't remember, any classificatory system is a net 
spread on the blessed manifold of the individual blinding us to not all but 
to too many of its variations and continuities."

                       --John Wisdom, "Philosophy, Anxiety, and Novelty"


David Morris wrote:


Of course all descriptions are metaphors.  That is not a weakness.  It
is the nature of thought.  So instead of saying how Freud/Lacan/Zizek
are "bonkers," you are really only complaining that life is more
complicated than the framework they use to describe their
observations.  Of course it is, but do you have an alternative?

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