d Rectangle d Text Box Freud from Civilization and its Discontents [1930] d Text Box d Rectangle On the matter of our ongoing main text, heading into parts IV and V of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, I'm posting also to share a new short response prompt/question due for our March 1 meeting: A challenging pair of chapters to wrap a single manageable question around, it's tempting to start off in a brief characterization, saying: Between chapter IV and V, what might come to be experiences as 'psychic actuality' is described as strongly potentially shaped by external (notably in IV), and internal (more substantially in V) stimuli or forces; which, in a sense, appear to constitute a kind of symmetrical situation (two respective horizons), but in other ways a strikingly differentiated one in terms of the form and the kinds of challenges (the relationship to and defense against the two horizons is supposed quite different). But could perhaps more simply just say: Freud provides us an interesting exposition on how he pictures the relationship of consciousness to forces which bear upon it. I suppose the challenge here is to put some of this to a test of sorts, which could involvea) asking how concrete experience might either seem to bear out or to dispute some particular assertions that Freud offers, or b) examining some specific features of the underlying logic that Freud employs in forming this schematic.  (some of that logic directly stated & perhaps some of it not) I’d welcome your pursuing either path, but do try to connect your discussion to particular features of Freud’s text (and perhaps also try to keep in mind the larger schematic situation of those pieces; meaning don’t pull them too radically out of context).  Short response is one page double space. Due time is March 1 11:50 AM New York time .

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On the matter of our ongoing main text, heading into parts IV

2. and V of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, I'm posting also to
share a new short response prompt/question due for our March 1
meeting:
A challenging pair of chapters to wrap a single manageable
question around,
it's tempting to start off in a brief characterization, saying:
Between chapter IV and V, what might come to be experiences
as 'psychic actuality' is described as strongly potentially shaped
by external (notably in IV), and internal (more substantially in
V) stimuli or forces; which, in a sense, appear to constitute a
kind of symmetrical situation (two respective horizons), but in
other ways a strikingly differentiated one in terms of the form
and the kinds of challenges (the relationship to and defense
against the two horizons is supposed quite different).
But could perhaps more simply just say:
Freud provides us an interesting exposition on how he pictures
the relationship of consciousness to forces which bear upon it.
I suppose the challenge here is to put some of this to a test of
sorts, which could involvea) asking how concrete experience
might either seem to bear out or to dispute some particular
assertions that Freud offers, or b) examining some specific
features of the underlying logic that Freud employs in forming
this schematic. (some of that logic directly stated & perhaps
some of it not)
I’d welcome your pursuing either path, but do try to connect
your discussion to particular features of Freud’s text (and
perhaps also try to keep in mind the larger schematic situation
of those pieces; meaning don’t pull them too radically out of
context).

3. Short response is one page double space.
Due time is March 1 11:50 AM New York time