We cannot will away our destructive histories
Does the highlighted sentence below mean :
"While we may need new concepts of the subject to be able to describe the relationships among other people who do not have an appropriate understanding of the western conception of the subject, we can not forget and ignore our dark history (both our individual history and social history)"?
But, its last part that says "we can not forget and ignore our dark history" does not make sense. What is your interpretation, please?
Text:
In the current trend in art-critical discourse, which embraces relational theories of the subject, it is often forgotten that Freud’s theories are themselves relational, his focus on negativity not only having to do with his time of writing, which spanned the lead up to two world wars, but also telling us something fundamental about the destructive aspects of the psyche which needs to be borne in mind in relation to ethical interrelations between subjects. While we may need new concepts of the subject to enable us to articulate relations between others for whom the Western conception of the subject may not feature on the cultural horizon, we cannot will away our originally destructive histories, either individual or social (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).?
Top answer
I was afraid she would disappear up herself in the end, and she has. She is so wrapped up in her theories that she can't see beyond them, That does not invalidate her at all, but it limits her usefulness, and more importantly here, it makes her unclear. That "while" is pointless unless her view of humanity is gospel.
- I was afraid she would disappear up herself in the end, and she has.
- She is so wrapped up in her theories that she can't see beyond them, That does not invalidate her at all, but it limits her usefulness, and more importantly here, it makes her unclear.
- That "while" is pointless unless her view of humanity is gospel.
- This sounds patently absurd to me, too.
- By the way, "cannot" is almost always a single word.
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I was afraid she would disappear up herself in the end, and she has. She is so wrapped up in her theories that she can't see beyond them, That does not invalidate her at all, but it limits her usefulness, and more importantly here, it makes her unclear. That "while" is pointless unless her view of humanity is gospel. This sounds patently absurd to me, too.
By the way, "cannot" is almost
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