The death of John L. Simon, Lincoln Brigade

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Carrol wrote:
>The objection to psychonalysis has little to do with bourgeois
>subjectivist influences weakening the movement and everything
>to do with the same problem that afflicted Cartesian physics
>or behaviorism or phrenology: they were/are all simply wrong.
>All of these could/did/perhaps still can lead to good results
>(in knowledge production/political activism), but such results
>do not remedy their intellectual deficiencies just as the
>political failures of their followers is not the basis for
>rejecting them.
>
>The Unconscious is/was/will always be a fetish.

Even when psychoanalysis attempts to address the social, it can only posit
it as if it were an individual writ large.  In psychoanalysis, history as
such doesn't exist -- only "ontogeny that recapitulates phylogeny" as in
_Totem and Taboo_, _Moses and Monotheism_, and _Civilization and Its
Discontents_.  Here, individualism and organicism work as evil dialectical
twins.

Yoshie