Monday, November 10, 2008

Hollis' Freud Questions

Xerox:
How does the suggestion that “everything has to be paid for in one way or another” become relevant in a discourse of commodity? How is trauma become essential in this dialogue of remuneration?

I.
Can the concept of ‘instinct’ be situated or juxtaposed with Marx’s theory of the human and the sensuous?

II.
On a footnote that runs from 59-60, Freud suggests that the manifestation of sexual symbolism coincides with the first years of speech. Stewart also uses language as a tool to pry open object relations. Is this a sort of linguistic determinism, or is it the inverse? Can Freud’s terminology be seen as furthering a commodification of sexual experience?

III.
On page 88 Freud suggests that the ‘finding of an object is in fact a refinding of it.’ How can this theory of recovery be seen as relative to the trauma of loss in Weiner?

*** Interesting to note that page 88 has caught everyone' attention thusfar

No comments: