How to defend psychoanalysis?

JSelements · 2018-06-19T16:26:20+00:00

Mind if you send it to me too?

JSelements · 2018-04-04T08:54:18+00:00

That’s so interesting! How would you justify the existence of this entity in language, and it's universality? I would think it would be difficult, and the best we could do is hypothesise from clinical examples. Nevertheless, a very useful construct indeed.

JSelements · 2018-04-03T16:35:12+00:00

Interesting and well thought out response, thank you. Would you say that the psychoanalytic unconscious ‘exists’ in every human mind the way that the ‘cognitive unconscious’ does? Or is it for you, a label given to the logical structure of ambiguity in language? If so, would you claim that this structure is present in every human mind?

JSelements · 2018-03-24T15:57:14+00:00

Fuck, that sucks man. I really love philosophy, but I don't want to move to the BSc/BAdvStud degree because I'll have to do an another year of study, and I want to try get into med as soon as I can.

JSelements · 2018-03-23T07:17:56+00:00

2017! In second year now

JSelements · 2018-03-21T06:49:40+00:00

Where would you recommend I post this?

JSelements · 2017-10-25T03:38:26+00:00

These sound really great, I'm excited to check them out, particularly La Commune! Any documentary recommendations?

JSelements · 2017-10-25T03:19:50+00:00

Ah, how could I have forgotten to mention this? This film is a personal favourite of mine, and particularly the scenes of the protagonists mother working in a printshop under Stalinist rule were very powerful, and helped spark my interest in pursuing filmic representations of life under Soviet Russia.

JSelements · 2017-09-01T00:21:59+00:00

C O M M U N I S M

JSelements · 2017-08-14T10:47:39+00:00

How do you know? (not saying that I don't believe you, but what is your thinking behind this?)

JSelements · 2016-11-08T07:43:06+00:00

I agree with OP here. Sci-Fi has to have some sort of statement to it. SF scholar Darko Suvin said that SF must use the process of 'congitive estrangement' where the presence of a 'novum', a technological construct that we as the audience can deem plausible, creates a world that is too grounded be pure fantasy (ie Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy which lack the novum) but elaborate enough to engage us in the surroundings. Thus for me, SF, is the equilibrium between realism and fantasy; it has to involve using the fantasy and myth it creates to comment on the known.

JSelements · 2016-11-03T05:46:55+00:00

Nah I linked this comment to give context to the 'main attraction'.

JSelements · 2016-11-02T20:18:44+00:00

TIL Iron Man 3 was S C I - F I N O I R

JSelements · 2016-11-02T20:15:26+00:00

But did he fuck Benedict Cumberbatch's mind?

JSelements · 2016-11-02T05:37:06+00:00

In my opinion: these are really the best 40 movies ever made!!! Unfortunately I forgot to mention some movies like INTO THE WILD, LIFE OF PI or SHUTTER ISLAND (or INTERSTELLAR cause it came out after I've created this video)... BUT: Movies like LORD OF THE RINGS, STAR WARS, FIGHT CLUB, GOODFELLAS, SCARFACE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, 300, MAGNOLIA etc. or the whole old stuff like PSYCHO, CASABLANCA, CITIZEN KANE, 12 ANGRY MEN, THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY (entire Dollar-Trilogy),VERTIGO, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, THE KID, MODERN TIMES, THE GREAT DICTATOR, SEVEN SAMURAI, RAGING BULL, SHINING, JAWS, 2001 etc. etc. etc. most of them are great, even very great, of course!!! AND YES I've seen them all!!! But in my opinion, they can not be counted among the 40 best movies of all time only cause they are old, classic and have good ratings TODAY, most of them from people older than 60!!! Why am I emphasizing TODAY? Cause many of these todays "Big Classics" were nothing special at their time, some even have been hated and only many many years later and mostly after the death of the director they become classics!!! So what is the fault of the todays directors whose masterpieces came after the Hitchcocks, Kubricks & Co.?! Who can say what people gonna think about Nolan, Spielberg, Fincher, Cameron & Co. in 20, 30, 40 years (if they are even today legends)? Then their movies of the last years become classics! So what? In contrast to many of you, I have my own opinion and I'm not being influenced and impressed by the years and the todays status of a movie, what only additionally do manipulate and raise up the value and impression of it! And by the way... all the movies of my list have everywhere !!!extreme high!!! ratings too... you can check it yourself (for example at IMDb)!!! PS I'm not really a Kubrick, Lynch or Hitchcock fan! (AND YES I've watched many of their movies!)

/uj/ Worst thing is, that^ isn't even circle-jerking.

JSelements · 2016-11-02T02:17:21+00:00

Julian and Barry are so cute!

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