Re: "Gabe": Revealed


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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