>>That if a domestic appliance goes on the blink, I'm better off
calling in a domestic-appliance-repair-man or an electrician rather than,
say, a Feng Shui expert who will offer to restore it to harmonious
functioning by placing it in a different corner of the room.
With sexual difference it is a question of libidinal economics, the
incompatibility or incompossibility of pleasures. Some people would give a
lot to be rid of it, as they would like to be rid of all incompossibilities;
hence the noble dream of the comprehensive school, which will only truly
exist when nothing else does.
>>Dom
Look, I don't know, I speak from my own personal experience: but I do feel,
I do perceive myself as terribly the same as everybody else, with little
differences, diferences that make no difference: maybe it is a pathology of
the mind, if I can hardly distinguish myself from anybody else, and in
this, believe me, I feel sincere. So, no theory can fully render my
percepition: I am one no-one onethousand (in Pirandellian terms)......
This is not a speculative speech, this is what I stand for:
no difference, similarities.
erminia
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:37:36 +0000, Erminia Passannanti
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>Antinomies often arise in the frame of mind of dogmatic people who prefer
>keeping systematically separate opposites with strict definitions, beyond
>any real dialectic use they might have in concrete terms.
>People of this kind normally oppose the kind of (feminist) statement
>according to which one day male and female roles will be so shared that
>there will be no need for such gender partitions as who is to be the man
>and who is to be the woman. To hope for a transsexual society (in terms of
>roles and functions) does not mean that there wont’ be any sentimental or
>sexual exchanges between and among individuals of different sexes. The
>going beyond these definitions can indeed create a better ground for
>interrelations among human beings (believe it or not). It means to go
>beyond the language itself that created partitions.
>In the order of ideas that I am criticizing, people will be inclined to
>believe that being different is better, more special and more desirable
>than being similar.
>
>This proves the being in action of a dicotomical mind not of a dialectical
>one.
>
>To prefer, as suggested, the condition of transindividuality means to
>attribute to the contradictory nature of things and causes the pretext and
>ground for moving beyond. It is a form of transcendentalism in the sense
>that it wishes to reconcile the antinomy of causes and results in a space
>outside the conflict. If one employs this terminology not only to
>understand experiences and roles, but to venture beyond these established
>boundaries, one will see that each person in himself/herself is, in fact,
>what one is but also what is opposite to one's own nature, one will see
>that opposite natures melt and assimilate one to the other and are in fact
>only illusionary different. Transindividuality attempts to reconcile
>opposites, permitting, in this way, the overcoming of conflicts between
>men and women.
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