Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 X
[In our current living world, sensible construction (using words that are presumed to be sensical) relies on social construction (using words that wrestle with the nonsensical).]
02/22/17
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt
02/13/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 Q
[In our current Lebenswelt, an adult encounters a diversity of symbolic orders unmoored from a clear sense of reference.
This poses a question:
What if we were adults in a world with a clear sense of reference?
What if we were adults who never saw a symbolic order that differed from our band’s symbolic order?
Would we be like children, as innocent as Adam and Eve?
Would our minds operate smoothly according to evolution’s manual?]
02/9/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 O
Summary of text [comment] page 80
[When religious institutions look at the person, they see a person who needs to be repaired. Two normal contexts and two potentials intersect in a single actor.
When religions interpellate the actor, they provide a symbolic order (or specialized language) through which the person may construct “himself”. This construction may build character (as in a suprasovereign religion) or impose organization (as in a infrasovereign religion).
Either way, conversion reduces contradictions between human thought and action.]
02/8/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 N
Summary of text [comment] page 80
[Freud’s model describes the human psyche in a fashion that matches an intersection.
What does this imply?
Maybe, once upon a time, the id, superego and ego worked like a functioning engine. The ego was the perspective that brought the situation-based superego (conforming to social rules and traditions) into relation with the possibility of the id (expressing the desires of the individual).
Now, we are broken. We do not operate according to our evolutionary manual. Our evolutionary trajectory has been derailed.]
02/7/17
02/6/17
02/3/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 K-2
[The word ‘locomotion’ is a mash of two words ‘location’ and ‘motion’.
It derives from the Latin words locus (or place) and motivus (causing to move).
Yet, the slang word ‘loco’ means ‘crazy’.
Freud’s model combines the two images by describing the human psyche in a fashion that matches an intersection. Consider the following two blogs.]
02/2/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 K-1
Summary of text [comment] page 80
[I don’t want to go too far off track.
But, it seems that the interscope and intersection take me in different directions.
One applies when the steam engine is working.
One applies when the steam engine is not working properly.
Is there a method to Frued’s metaphorical madness?]
02/1/17
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