tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post8129679265277186075..comments2021-05-10T16:59:07.664+01:00Comments on Psycho-Babble On...: Misery and meaningAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02527945873706012277noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-34019746800084041792008-07-15T11:01:00.000+01:002008-07-15T11:01:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.University of Sheffieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10891277700582868913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-32986635462502560462008-07-12T05:16:00.000+01:002008-07-12T05:16:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tournesolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285525991598506214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-47973550325569359432008-07-12T04:51:00.000+01:002008-07-12T04:51:00.000+01:00Hi again ChrisYes, I have read some of the profess...Hi again Chris<BR/><BR/>Yes, I have read some of the professor’s papers, and I am aware of his interest in AS although the papers I wish to discuss with him relate to online therapy. I strongly believe that one of some of the problems exposed by Digby plus one that is not are key to my synchronous communication problems both online and in the ‘real world’. Unfortunately for me, I am not sure how best to approach the professor.(Approach that is to say via e-mail or letter rather than in the physical sense which in my opinion would be rather weird)<BR/><BR/>I did not however realise you have an interest in AS as well. Would it be acceptable for me to contact you via e-mail to discuss your work on AS? <BR/><BR/>As for the course, Dr Nash and the mysterious ‘we’ collective turned down my application. However I have managed to comfort myself by concluding she must suffer unresolved penis envy to have rejected me so harshly. ;)Tournesolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285525991598506214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-11049121575643264132008-07-07T16:59:00.000+01:002008-07-07T16:59:00.000+01:00Hi Prozacville,Thanks for the comment. I agree, th...Hi Prozacville,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment. I agree, there isn't such a thing as a "true self", but interestingly, we all behave, most of the time, as if there is. It's a bit like the debate over the unconscious (I see someone has had a go at that topic in response to one of Michael's posts). These concepts may not ultimately stand up to close scrutiny, but we seem to need them, so they do have a sense of "utility" or "handiness". And maybe that is good enough...<BR/><BR/>Your comment about the "to and fro" was interesting too. I think that this subjectivisation is important to us, and it plugs into our desire to be story-tellers, which almost always requires the interplay of subject and object. But I will need to ponder a bit on that one.<BR/><BR/>I note, with a tinge of sadness, the passing of "Afreud of myself". Onwards (or should that be inwards) and upwards...?!<BR/><BR/>ChrisChris Blackmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17076760055562673722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-43470569543838503662008-07-07T16:49:00.000+01:002008-07-07T16:49:00.000+01:00Hi Paul,Interesting to hear your reflections. You ...Hi Paul,<BR/><BR/>Interesting to hear your reflections. You may know that Prof Digby Tantam, who has been instrumental in setting up both the MA and the MSc, has a particular interest in AS. And I have done some clinical work with people with AS, and a bit of research too. So you may well have some contact with both me and Digby if you do enroll on the course.<BR/><BR/>And your comments on asynchronous communication and disembodiment make perfect sense to me.<BR/><BR/>ChrisChris Blackmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17076760055562673722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-34130823722914387352008-06-28T11:24:00.000+01:002008-06-28T11:24:00.000+01:00Very interesting post.For me, this web of meaning ...Very interesting post.<BR/><BR/>For me, this web of meaning is (my first thought, the internet, but no, I think it's) the blogosphere. <BR/><BR/>If there is such a thing as a true self (no, there isn't, but at least a self that feels consistent in some way through one's life)then the only place I probably experience that self is in a) analysis b) Prozacville.<BR/><BR/>I do sometimes think it's a little 'sad' that A is paid for, a sort of psychological prostitution and B is a disembodied virtual environment where people check in when it suits them to do so, and the 'rules' are that nobody questions this. I think people's comments on a blog are really just 'bridging' signifiers, like the psychoanalysts grunts of agreement, a way of saying 'I'm listening'. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps what it really boils down to is that for some of us (maybe all of us) we can only feel subjectivised if no-one else is infiltrating this subjectivity with the so-called 'to and fro' of conversation.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08271504494780200087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428160050167747901.post-44840419918904514242008-06-21T03:35:00.000+01:002008-06-21T03:35:00.000+01:00Hi Chris,I have just applied for the MA in Psychoa...Hi Chris,<BR/><BR/>I have just applied for the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies and as I explained to your colleague, Michael Szollosy I am an Aspie, I have a neurological condition called Asperger syndrome. (Was it really a month ago since I first had this conversation with Michael?) One of the reasons I applied for the course is asynchronous communication. I cannot process long conversations without breaking them down in to related chunks, and trying to analyse their meaning and as anyone who has used IRC or worse a chatroom will tell you the conversation move to fast for me to participate. <BR/><BR/>As for disembodiment and the lack of visual feedback, this again is better for me. I cannot read ‘body language’ or to be precise verbal and non-verbal cues while ‘the normals’ (in the Freudian sense of course ;)) Take my ‘spaciness’ as a lack of interest in what they are saying to me. For me disembodiment is not about feeling comfortable, it is a necessity to deep learning and without courses such as Michael’s I would be out in the cold. So there your web of joy… just as long as I get a place on the course that is. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com