Subject: Re: "Gabe": Revealed
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 05:05:13 EST
I wonder had Jung still been around would he have
identified the archetype of 'the Returning Contributor'?
Charlotte as Jim, Camille as Louise, Camille as Gabe
& so on. It's not exactly Jesus on the road to Emaus
but it IS a bit reminiscent. Yet it always seemed to me,
in view of the very different styles, that the theory could
only hold true if one assumed there were some very classy
counterfeiters with a weakness for mailing lists.
I imagine by now there must be thousands of PhD theses
on the psychodynamics of the listserv & I have no
intention of consulting any of them. But isn't this
clearly an example of group guilt? The member is
'driven off' or retires because of some misunderstanding
or because the list has failed to provide him with adequate
nourishment - & then returns. The return serves a double
purpose. The ghost comes back to haunt us for our bad
behaviour - but also to reassure us that our destructiveness
is not THAT final, that we're not THAT naughty.
It seems just another illustration of the dreadful touchiness
& 'sensitivity' that hovers over so many lists. That's all
they are, for Pete's sake: little clubs for verbal exhibitionists
like ourselves to show off & lark about a bit. Except very
rarely we don't even meet. There's no fucking. No one
gets killed.
Scottie B.
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