[lbo-talk] Re: Queer Theory

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Mon Sep 27 03:36:35 PDT 2004


Ravi wrote:


> there is no justification/rationale to [attempt to] restrict (or
> even comment on) the actions of one or more persons unless it harms
> others (in a demonstrable way).

Do you mean that no justification is available for the judgment, for instance, that sexual relations in which clinical narcissism plays a significant role, i.e. in which individuals are incapable of experiencing what others actually feel because their experience of them is distorted by projective phantasy, won't be as good as relations in which this problem doesn't exist? This isn't true. All that's required is to compare through direct experience sex in which the problem does exist with sex in which it doesn't. Sex with people who idealize you, for instance, isn't as good as sex with people able to be attuned to your actual feelings. This requires from you a capacity to be attuned yourself to the feelings of others, a capacity very difficult to develop, but if you have such a capacity it will be possible to justify the judgment.

Ted



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