) Finally, this community of wives and children is explicitly mentioned only in regard to the guardian and auxiliary classes (464b). (Relations between brother & sister might result, though, at least post-menopausally. Parents are kept from knowing the identity of their children (457d), and incest is prohibited, a prohibition made possible by "generational" parent-child relations (461c-e). Infanticide is advocated for unfit children (460c, 461c-d), and child-rearing is carried out by state officers and nurses (460c-d). The lottery is, of course, a false one, rigged to guarantee that the best will breed with the best, etc. Form: The rulers will practice eugenics by way of a "mating lottery." Socrates once again advocates "a throng of lies and deceptions for the benefit of the ruled," which he describes as a "drug" or "remedy" to be administered by a "doctor," i.e., the rulers (459c-d cf.
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Interestingly, in contemporary psychiatry there is growing empirical evidence that schizophrenia is characterized by abnormal interpretation of verbal and nonverbal information, with a great difficulty to put such information in the appropriate context. In particular, he postulated that language makes up the experience of subjectivity and that psychosis is marked by the absence of a crucial metaphorization process. Starting from the theories of leading psychiatrists, like Kraepelin and de Clérambault, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) formulated an original theory of psychosis, focusing on the subject and on the structuring role of language. The structure of the book is in the form of long letters to figures like George Floyd and Emmet Till, but used to discuss contemporary events. It’s interesting, but like all other conversations about cancel culture the free-floating nature of the definition leads to unclear meaning at times. 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A lot of Michael Eric Dyson books are generally the same, with updated topics and examples. |