After the Fall (was Re: religious crackpots in public life)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:07:19 -0700 Lisa & Ian Murray <seamus at accessone.com>
>wrote:
>
> > >>Religion is a way of coming to terms with something that is lacking, a
>foundational flaw in the human character.
>
> > What foundational flaw?  Isn't that, itself a primal, erroneous, 
>myth? Or are
>you referring to our mortality and our refusal to come to terms with it?
>
>I'm not supposed to talk about L---n on this list, or Z---k for that 
>matter, so
>I'll refuse to answer that questions on the grounds that it might start an
>argument that I don't really have lots of time to vindicate. But, with that
>being said, even if one accepts the most elementary of Freud's theses, the
>structure of the psyche for instance, then the subject is split and fractured.
>This "flaw" is the conflict between the agencies... in a nutshell.
>
>ken, didn't say LACAN!

In other words, the "flaw" of the split & fractured subject as 
theorized in psychoanalysis = the Original Sin caused by the Fall 
theorized in Christianity.

Yoshie