tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post116382497528919529..comments2024-03-04T04:12:57.650-05:00Comments on THEORY NOW: Contradictions in Supplemental DiscourseMark Cameron Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04697922195376438088noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-1164816694892058302006-11-29T11:11:00.000-05:002006-11-29T11:11:00.000-05:00Very astute. A supplemental support is only as go...Very astute. A supplemental support is only as good as the "horse it rode in on."Mark Cameron Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697922195376438088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-1164816249800608392006-11-29T11:04:00.000-05:002006-11-29T11:04:00.000-05:00If McCarthy's work is based on the idea of desubli...If McCarthy's work is based on the idea of desublimation, another issue might be that this conceptual support would only be valid insofar as the underlying Freudian views are valid. Freud theorized that that "civilization" is the result of sublimation of primordial instinctual urges. If "civilization" is not just agression or sexuality etc. morphed into a more socialized form, then we might not be able to accept McCarthy's message as particularly interesting other than as a different way of expressing Freud's some-would-say-obsolete theories.patrickjdonovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15444197047924162531noreply@blogger.com