Destructive plasticity, War, and Anarchism: a conversation between Catherine Malabou and Julie Reshe
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Catherine Malabou and Julie Reshe discuss the concept of destructive plasticity, war, anarchism, cooperation, and much more:
▪️ Destructive plasticity 0:22
▪️ The new wounded 5:46
▪️ The world today 13:43
▪️ The future 20:17
▪️ New solidarity 23:00
▪️ Anarchism 32:40
Catherine Malabou is a philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London.
Julie Reshe is a philosopher and a practicing negative psychoanalyst of Ukrainian Gypsy origin.
Wonderful conversation!
I love you don't muck about. You go straight for the nectar.
Спасибо, Жюли!
Я знаю, что в своей практике Вы не преследуете такой цели, а скорее наоборот, но не могу не сказать, что эффект от появления уведомлений о новых видео-дискуссиях успокаивающий и обнадеживающий!
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes ….” Emily Dickinson nailed this form of suffering that manifests itself as an absence of suffering. 11:23
Ironically, I got an ad for motivational speaker Tony Robbins "Date with Destiny" seminar along with the talk. Tony is going to help me "Re-engineer myself and flourish in it". Stark contrast.
This was an interesting conversation, but saying "classical" anarchism was averse to philosophy or theorisation is a mistake. That's OK, Malabou is still learning (aren't we all?) and she's more than welcome in the camp. I really like the ideas she's been putting forward in connection with plasticity.
Thanks for this fantastic interview!
A magnificent interview! The Other of ones own death really struck me there. When people talk about their own death, the automacy of their (including my self) speech, the otherness of it, has always puzzeled me. As someone who is new to the field of psychoanalysis, I wonder what are the foundations of this Otherness.
I would say that the first time we encounter the fact of our own death in childhood, we don't have a way to Other it. I guess some of, if not most, of us can vaguely recall the horror of realising one's own eventual death. I remember not having any control over that thought, and not being able to surpass it by my own, untill I was eventually able to imagine my family mourning and missing me as if i was still there with them, consolidating with their greef. This ways able to comfort my self. Is this othering one's own death?
If so, it seems to be not about providing meaning to death but about creating a (signifying?) structure over it's impossibility. Does this kind of structure somehow provide the necessary support for the fantasy of immortality?
A relatively minor fact-check: Malabou's description of people with Alzheimer's disease is a description of those who are in the very very late stages of the disease and or who are very heavily sedated as almost all people with Alzheimer's are, once they're in memory care. (In the US, many - quite possibly most - Alzheimer's patients in memory care units are quietly diagnosed with schizophrenia so that they can be given extremely sedating antipsychotic medications like Haldol.) Several years ago, physicians and researchers treating people with Alzheimer's were involved in an art gallery project to try to give people the idea of what it is like to have Alzheimer's: The exhibit was intended to provoke confusion and anxiety. A person with Alzheimer's may suffer very obviously and openly from anxiety because they are so often fused by their surroundings in misinterpret sensory input.
Good discussion.
Kind of like destructive ideas (etc destruct plastic to material form and recreating them) causing Internal and external conflict.
I think that Freud in ‘beyond the pleasure principle’ was trying to pose the question why do people repeat trauma in their dreams and acting out in real life - he had known of the problems of Austria soldiers and their First World War PTSD (in modern terms). He is faced with a paradox behaviour that is not pleasure seeking or pain avoiding - but pain returning - this can be called destructive plasticity or as failed attempts to work out the trauma - note the use Freud makes of his grandson Ernst Fort-Da game. I thinking if we approach this in terms of Bion’s 0 and K+ or K- we might think of the plasticity in terms of a creative or a destructive K response to trauma.
Communism and Anarchism are closely related in relationship to human freedom.
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Based God 🙏🌙
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