Summary of text [comment] page 80
[When a child adopts the religion of his parents and folk, this adoption is developmentally different from what follows childhood.
The child executes developmental stages that belong to ‘the Lebenswelt that we evolved in’.
Under most circumstances, recognition and participation interscope.
When they do not, the child must ‘grow up’.]
Summary of text [comment] page 80
[When religious institutions look at the person, they see a person who needs to be repaired. Two normal contexts and two potentials intersect in a single actor.
When religions interpellate the actor, they provide a symbolic order (or specialized language) through which the person may construct “himself”. This construction may build character (as in a suprasovereign religion) or impose organization (as in a infrasovereign religion).
Either way, conversion reduces contradictions between human thought and action.]
Summary of text [comment] page 80
[Freud’s model describes the human psyche in a fashion that matches an intersection.
What does this imply?
Maybe, once upon a time, the id, superego and ego worked like a functioning engine. The ego was the perspective that brought the situation-based superego (conforming to social rules and traditions) into relation with the possibility of the id (expressing the desires of the individual).
Now, we are broken. We do not operate according to our evolutionary manual. Our evolutionary trajectory has been derailed.]
[The word ‘locomotion’ is a mash of two words ‘location’ and ‘motion’.
It derives from the Latin words locus (or place) and motivus (causing to move).
Yet, the slang word ‘loco’ means ‘crazy’.
Freud’s model combines the two images by describing the human psyche in a fashion that matches an intersection. Consider the following two blogs.]
Summary of text [comment] page 80
[I don’t want to go too far off track.
But, it seems that the interscope and intersection take me in different directions.
One applies when the steam engine is working.
One applies when the steam engine is not working properly.
Is there a method to Frued’s metaphorical madness?]
[The single actuality that encompasses valves and boilers emerges from and situates two potentials that seem to have nothing to do with either boilers or valves.
The single actuality underlies the two normal contexts that describe the normal functioning steam engine.
It also belongs to a context that seems to have nothing to do with the mechanics of an engine. The normal context for the single actuality is the running of the engine.
That normal context is informed by the perspective of transportation in figure 2.3G.]
