war sacrifice/psychoanalysis

[joanna bujes]

At 11:19 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Psychoanalysis did have a genuinely radical moment, though - Freud was, 
>strange
>as it sounds, one of the first great theorists of the consumer culture. The
>whole point of the Freudian revolution in psychology was (1) to replace the
>notion of fixed, immutable identities with the notion of free-floating,
>malleable subjects, replete with personal microhistories, and (2) to insist
>that all analysis has a moment of self-analysis. The later versions of
>psychoanalysis all but obliterated this radical insight underneath 
>reactionary
>mythologies of various kinds.

I agree. Is there anything in what I wrote that would make you think I didn't?

Joanna