Friday, May 31, 2013

From the Archives: Part 19 of the Self and its Sources




The ontological disease - continued: Dostoyevsky’s ‘Underground Man’

Levi’s ad:
“I’m not trying to be noticed…but I won’t be ignored”

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 18




The ontological disease as exemplified by the character Hap Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".

Saturday, May 25, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 16




Sacrifical violence transcendentalizes desire.
The revelation of the truth about the sacrificial structures of human culture is found in the story of the crucifixion of Jesus

Thursday, May 23, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 15




A biblical echo of sacred transcendence in Numbers 25 - the righteous sacrificial act of Phinehas

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 14




How does this sacred transcendence come about?
An example from Aztec myth.
Is there another way to create transcendence?

Sunday, May 19, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 13




Examples of images of fanciful prestige that keep humans from slaughtering each other.

Lord of the Flies: British officer as representative of the sacrificial system - a form of transcendence.

Friday, May 17, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 12




Democracy as the myth of the death of kings (Charles I and Louis XVI).
Plato: let no one disturb the small stone that separates friendship and enmity.
Prestige: those illusions that kept us from slaughtering one another.
The Caiaphas principle: it is better that one should die than the whole nation be destroyed.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 10




More definitions of "plot": the main story.
Myth (an operative fiction with its fictionality suppressed).
Western skepticism and the scientific spirit have a moral core.
Plot: a secret plan or scheme.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 9




Sacrifice at the heart of the central monument of western culture. The ancient Greeks as “equal opportunity victimizers”?
The plot is where the sacrificial victim is buried.
The cosmos and the corpse come into being at the same instant.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 7




Plot – the ground plan of a building - Mircea Eliade: a New Guinea ritual

Sunday, May 05, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 6




Ancient historic background of the word ‘plot’ as a measured piece of land - the sacrality of the terminus.

Friday, May 03, 2013

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 4




The source of primitive people’s attention. The tended plot of ground, a garden and a grave - the site of sacrality.