[Fwd: RE: An Orientalist explanation from Zizek]

Mark Jones jones118 at lineone.net
Tue May 9 08:55:13 PDT 2000


This is a provocation, Carrol. I have no intention of discussing Zizek/Lacan on this list, and just told Doug so. Life's too short. Mine is anyway. (The world is full of frauds, so why pick on these two?)

Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
> Sent: 09 May 2000 15:26
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: [Fwd: RE: An Orientalist explanation from Zizek]
>
>
> Several Latin American comrades on the marxism list defend
> Freud's importance for understanding individuals. I continue
> to disagree with them on this, but thought it might be useful
> to at least note on LBO that the debates going on here have
> not two sides but numerous sides. The following post illustrates
> this though of course it does not provide an argument. It merely
> labels a position.
>
> Carrol
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: An Orientalist explanation from Zizek
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 08:52:36 -0300
> From: Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky <gorojovsky at inea.com.ar>
>
> En relación a RE: An Orientalist explanation from Zizek,
> el 9 May 00, a las 8:36, Mark Jones dijo:
>
> >I can tell you this: these are the guys (starting with that
> >great fraud Lacan) who first gave Freud a REALLY
> >bad name.
>
> YES, YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Sorry, could not stop myself from sending this deeply useless
> posting. Poor Anglo Saxon world, has read Freud first through Melanie
> Klein, second through Jacques Lacan. If they had entered Newton the
> same way, they would still be doing sorcery to keep the Sun coming
> back next year.
>
> Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
> gorojovsky at inea.com.ar
>



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