I love how we got to the Freudian loaded term uncanny. Continue reading “Uncanny – AI conversation – Claude”
The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?”
This is item 01 in Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” Monograph
The first time Moreno mentions Marx in Who Shall Survive?, is in the Preludes of the Sociometric Movement (1978; xiv, xv)
The advent of sociometry cannot be understood without appraising my presociometric background and the historic-ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Marxism and psychoanalysis, the two opposites, each had spent their theoretic bolt, the one with Nikolai Lenin’s “State and Revolution” (1917), the other with Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” (1929). The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion, they both disavowed he idea of a community which is based on spontaneous love, un-selfishness and sainthood, on positive goodness and naive cooperativeness. I took a position contradictory to both, the side of positive religion.
To summarise: Moreno makes it clear he is not creating his work in a vacuum. Freud and Marx are the ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Moreno says “The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion”. Moreno took the side of positive religion. Continue reading “The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?””
Marx & Moreno Writing Project
I’m planning to write a monograph about every mention of Marx in “Who Shall Survive?”
And I’ll put each section here as a blog post. Tag: Monograph. Here is the Intro.
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Marx in Moreno’s Who Shall Survive?
About this Monograph
I aim to explore every mention of Marx, Marxism, Lenin, or communism in Who Shall Survive? (Moreno, 1978). Continue reading “Marx & Moreno Writing Project”
Post to remember
I just found this post: There is no such thing as a person
It’s one I still appreciate having written. Strangely, it takes away something of so-called autonomy of the individual. Well, of course, it takes way individualism. Terry Real calls it toxic individualism, but any individualism is toxic. It’s a radical statement: there is no such thing as a person.
It is the exact opposite what Margaret Thatcher said, isn’t it? That there’s no such thing as society.
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Google NotebookLM Podcast (interesting but tiresome already) People Myth.wav
Psychodrama Practicing Certificate
I’ve had one of these every year for decades. I usually print them and have them on the wall. This is as far as this one will get. I do like having it. It is congruent with who I am and also a mark of belonging to a community of people.
Fire Man
This popped up in my Apple featured Photos. I recall it from years ago. From a time I was on fire.
Take Responsibility for the Relationship
As a couple therapist, when coaching a couple to be together – I have to chose who to coach. One to listen better or the other to present their story so it is heard. Either would do, but I can only coach one at a time. So I move quickly from one to the other. I am the conductor they are the orchestra.
Here is my score sheet:
US fights the world’s wars & calls it aid!
NYT today, 21 April 2024 :
House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
After months of delay at the hands of a bloc of ultraconservative Republicans, the package drew overwhelming bipartisan support, reflecting broad consensus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/us/politics/ukraine-aid-bill-gaza-johnson.html
Saul Alinksy and Kurt Lewin
Saul Alinksy and Kurt Lewin are both on the family tree of my preoccupation, Marx & Moreno . My old friend Dennis mentioned he went to a workshop about them both (some time ago!)
Here is a site that mentions both figures. Continue reading “Saul Alinksy and Kurt Lewin”
The relations of creativity. Moreno & Marx
Here is a follow on post to an earlier one Homo faber
What makes us human – what is the one thing?
Humans are creators: Homo faber. Continue reading “The relations of creativity. Moreno & Marx”