[lbo-talk] Post Marxist Era

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Carl:  There are two materialist critiques of human
history: Freud's and Marx's.  If anything, Freud's
subject-matter is anterior and more fundamental.  I
imagine that human beings will never be freed from the
twists and turns of the unconscious, but they may yet
learn to create an economy and society around other
assumptions than private property.  On that I agree
with you.

bobW

Has anyone read Henrietta Moore's The Subject of Anthropology, a 
critique of Freudian (and probably at least implicitly Marxian) 
theory to understand how we are sexed. Yes indeed an equally if not 
more fundamental problem. I have done most of the child care of our 
now three year old daughter, and I have a lot of questions. How to 
deal with princesses, dolls, all the sexed artefacts, other kids' 
common sense, social expectations about female comportment and bodily 
hexis, the forming of an unconscious in terms of what can only be the 
most inchoate understanding of the conflict between parents' 
expectations and society's, a child's happiness, enthusiasm and 
flourishing.

rb