‘Positive’ means that ‘it's a construct’, it means that ‘we made it’, it means that we didn't have to make it but that we made it anyway. ‘Positive’ means that it comes about by force, as ‘an effort of will’…
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Our hidden dysfunctionality, if we are willing to admit that there is such a thing, is that we are always trying to fit everything into a model of the world, a theory of the world, that just doesn't have any...
The self operates by asserting the definite, by asserting the known. This constitutes the entirety of its ‘modus operandi'. Just to say this is not enough, however; we also have to point out, and emphasise as much as we can,...