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I can't force myself to read Barad. There is too much ambiguity in each word for me to cope.
Frank
"Psychoanalysis has much to say about boundary, object, and identity."
Admittedly, I am biased against psychoanalysis[♄] but if you would
kindly hum a few bars showing how you can see psychoanalytic methods
used to clarify ideas of boundary, object, and identity in the examples
brought up by Barad, well I am open to being swayed. What kinds of objects
does psychoanalysis produce? What are their qualities?
[♄] Following Deleuze and Guattari, I am critical in a few ways:
1. Descriptions of desire as a lack seem, well, lacking. Rooting
desire in a theatrical schema where an Oedipal tragedy unfolds before
the subject and outside of the control of the subject presents an agency
-free theory. I much prefer models of desire emphasizing the creativity
inherent in the _production_ of desire.
2. Freud (as the prototype of the psychoanalyst) misses the point of
little Hans' dream by projecting on the dream his own constellation of
archetypes and meanings rather than guiding Hans[!] through a proper
*discovery* as one might in Daseinsanalysis or Schizoanalysis. It is
another thing altogether to have the patient _construct_ their own
constellation, relations between the events and objects they produce.
3. Psychoanalysis appears to have, as its final goal, the outcome where
the patient resigns themselves to fixed relations within an Oedipal
trilogy, exchanging hope regarding all other possibilities in favor of
repeating the infinite Oedipal play. Psychoanalysis in this way appears
deeply committed to an eschatological worldview, death through
fixity all the way down.
4. Psychoanalysis appears to run into the same kinds of issues that
Barad's work attempts to address. To my mind, this is most clear in
the theories of Carl Jung or Joseph Campbell. There, in an effort to
arrive at archetypical universals we are handed a theory with no
obvious next step. What in those theories account for the possibility
or production of new archetypes?
[!] Even weirder in this case because Freud's interactions were not
even with Hans but with Hans' father.
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