Freud, Zizek, eros and thanatos

[Ian Livingston]

> In V., what is Benny's conceptual scheme? Stencil's?

Benny has an aversion to the inanimate; Stencil a tacit attraction to
it. By way of reductio.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Page wrote:
>>
>> David -- I am not sure what point you are trying to make. I was not
>> playing
>> semantic games. Nothing much hinges on complexity instead of complication.
>> Complex is simply a somewhat better description of classificatory systems
>> than is complicated. More accurate, but not necessarily better in any
>> absolute sense. The crucial point is that we impose order on the world (or
>> disorder; we impose entropy on the world) by means of our descriptions. We
>> cannot make sense of the world -- indeed, cannot function in the world --
>> without a conceptual scheme.
>
> In V., what is Benny's conceptual scheme? Stencil's?
>



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