Re: fort - da: an appropriation

Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:10:14 -0500

AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
 
> Ok, since I Can't Say That, I'll say that maybe the only "different kinds of
> thought" that exist are linguistic thought and non-linguistic thought.  From
> what I've heard the most recent research on the brain makes the idea of the
> "subconscious" look like a fairy tale.

Non-linguistic thought is unthinkable.  Quite literally impossible.

Perhaps what we are hung up on is definitions.  One doesn't have to
speak any bit of a language to have thoughts, obviously.  But one does
have to work with images, symbols--the methods of differentiation upon
which particular languages are predicated.  

> But, of course, the fact that the field of science devoted to the study of
> the human mind abandoned psychoanalytic theory long ago doesn't keep our
> literary critics from keeping it well alive :)
 
People in the wide world of psychology still study Freud.  And those
who claim they don't study Freud simply haven't yet realized (or been
told) that they still study Freud.

-- 
Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu