Is it the soul?
When I read anything, I know that theres a gist to the whole thing that takes prevalence over other ideas that are briefly mentioned within the text. That obviously relates back to the text we read during the last week. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Hacking
another book that i enjoy! In seminar today we talked about multiple personality disorder, or which is now renamed as “dissociative identity disorder” and that really sparked my interest because I love psychology and studying it and learning how so many cases diagnosed under the same case can vary tremendously. I find it amazing how […] Continue reading →
Hacking re-wrote my perception of memory
This has got to be one of the most interesting books we have read so far this year. Ok, let me re-phrase that: after Jill’s superb lecture that helped me to actually understand “what” exactly I was reading, I then … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Hacking and Freud
I would first like to say that this book, although long, is quite interesting. I really felt like I was intrigued by it, and the idea of multiple personalities is quite fascinating. I never would have made the connection between … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Rewriting the Soul
Rewriting the Soul As Hacking deals with multiple personalities in Rewriting the Soul, do people have multiple personalities? People do act differently in different situations and towards different people but isn’t it one of the ways people trying to socialize? … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Squeeeeeeeee
Because I can’t come up with a good title, but also because this book (what little of it I’ve read, but ascertaining from what I’ve read of it) is sort of everything I’m coming to love about philosophy i.e. goofy mental wanking combined with methodological rigour to create something genuinely insightful. What’s interesting is that […] Continue reading →
Hacking x Mysticism x History of Science
Sorry for the late post, still working on my essay rewrite, which has proved to be more challenging than I originally thought it would be. Nice to see how certain techniques and stylistic features of the non-fiction works we’ve been … Continue reading → Continue reading →
some ideas on ‘multiples’
The first few times Hacking used the term ‘multiples’, I legitimately thought he was referring to twins/triplets. Hopefully that’s an indication of my brain state this weekend. I will fully admit that I haven’t finished this book (I’m on page 112!) for a few reasons. I’ve been fighting off a nasty cold, and to be […] Continue reading →
Glitter
I’m beginning to believe the hardest part of any book is the last ten pages. One of the most important issues that the book raised (for me), was the question – if you’re treating somebody with multiple personality disorder, who exactly are you treating? Who/which personalities are called alters? Which, now that I’ve typed it […] Continue reading →
The idea of the repressive hypothesis within a discourse – enjoy!
The idea of the repressive hypothesis in Foucault’s History of Sexuality finds its crucial formula in what Foucault would call a notion of silence. Foucault calls silence “the absolute limit of discourse (page 27)” and characterizes silence as a discretion … Continue reading →
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