People Who Exist Too Heavily (Who Are Drowned in Everyday Existence)
25 May
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
People Who Are Up to their Knees in Soil Alienation is the metaphor for the relation between body and soul: a repressive disappearance of the soul. Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy” Imagine a person who is occupied only with one thing – making a living, either because he is [...]
Daimonic As Energy of Cultural Creativity vs. Daimonic As a Violent Acting-out
20 May
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
Depotentiating of the Daimonic in People’s Souls Cripples the Cultural Development and Encourages Totalitarian Tendencies The daimonic is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself. The daimonic becomes evil when it usurps the total self without regard to…the desires of others and their need for integration. It then [...]
To the Memory of Alice Miller (1922 – April 14, 2010), a Psychoanalyst and a Fighter Against Extreme or Widespread Forms of Child Abuse
17 May
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A Specialist in Psychological Trauma in Adults Who Were Abused As Children, Alice Miller Became a Promoter of Non-Abusive Pedagogy “Most people show not the slightest interest in the question of why a child has turned out this way or that. When the causes are pointed out to them – the brutality of the father, [...]
Liliana Cavani’s “Berlin Affair” (1985): How to Beat the Unbearable Social Anomy? – To internalize it, Shift it into the Area of Private Relations and to intensify it there
14 May
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The Logic of Conformist Rebellion against Society In the old world the sign was understood as a bearer of meaning, and the relation between sign and meaning was guaranteed by the external and objective existence of a referent. But this referential logic is abandoned once we enter the domain of generalized indeterminacy… What guarantees the [...]
Kathe Kollwitz’ “Lament” (1938 – 1940) and “Killed in Action” (1921) – Grief as a Destiny and as Grace*
08 May
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
Depiction of the Different Levels of Interactive Intelligence in Children through Their Reaction on Traumatic news It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending suffering heaped mountain-high. Kathe Kollwitz Kathe Kollwitz – the relief “Lament”, self-portrait, bronze, h.2.6 m, 1938 – 1940 In her “Lament” Kollwitz analyses the double nature of [...]
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- Emil Nolde’s “Sunflowers/Sonnenblumen” (1930) – When Human Creativity Awakens Eternity into Life
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