Of gods and vampires: an introduction to psychoanalysis

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Oct 5 10:38:12 PDT 1999


At 12:23 PM 10/5/99 -0400, kelley wrote:
>before i presented the paper, the moderator said, "well they say that
>german habermas scholars like to go to english language conferences on
>habermas, imagining that if they hear him interpreted in english they might
>understand him.

kelly, babe, you got a point here. I used to read the stuff to be able quote it at seminars to embarass the ta's and impress my prospective dates - it sounded profoundly academic because nobody could understand jack shit what it was about. i actually made an effort to decipher the deep meaning, including going to english translations that were realy realy helpful, but the verborrhage of these giants of esoterism was overwhelming. Howver, after i read c writght mills i realized that if something cannot be said in plain english it is probably not worth saying at all (albeit i'm not sure if that holds for the german as well), and stopped feeling bad about my lack of depth perception. moreover, after women became unimpressed by deep-thoughts dropping, i lost interest in the stuff altogether.

but could it be that deep thoughts dropping is back again? tell me, sweetie, will you still love me if i fail to habermacize your soul, horkheimerize your mind, and marcuserise your heart?

wojtek



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