this motherfricker wore a bright yellow coat. I'm sorry I keep posting this shit but it has officially become funny to me. look at the shitty woodland camo grip for urban warfare
this motherfricker wore a bright yellow coat. I'm sorry I keep posting this shit but it has officially become funny to me. look at the shitty woodland camo grip for urban warfare
What is this "sublimation" everyone keeps talking about?
One of the useful ideas Freud gave us for understanding how superstructure works. This redditor has a few possible pathological reasons to embrace their death drive, to become self-destructive if not suicidal. A new marriage is forcing them to live a new way, they're self-conscious about their looks and project that onto other facets of their identity, their identity seems to be mostly crypto on reddit and crypto markets have been going to hell over the past couple months. Social and material pressures build up until he's probably facing some degree of suicidal ideation. If not consciously, it's now driving him.
However you can't do that in normal society. r/meirl-type jokes have to speak about things like that under the veil of irony because it's socially unacceptable to be self-destructive. If he expressed those pathologies in their raw form, it'd be toxic emotional outbursts which either alienate them or make others concerned for them. We also have structural and cultural barriers to accessing medical care that would stop those things, while the same structures only immiserate and emasculate him further because it's profitable.
So he channels that into some other form that people do accept. Again it might not even be conscious, but suddenly becoming a mercenary for a conflict he doesn't seem to have an interest in is appealing. It fulfills his emotional need for self-destruction but in a heroic way. It fulfills his emotional need for validation and material security, but in the most culturally masculine way. It's not a suicide attempt because he's not firing the bullet and doesn't have to make that difficult choice we're programmed to avoid. His wife wouldn't have to deal with shame because she'd be a gold star widow. Suddenly that suicide is reframed as martyrdom with all of the same psychological drives that make someone want to martyr themselves.
Becoming a combat medic was partially like that for me. I mostly did it because I wanted tactical medicine training and the Hospital Corps was the best in the world, but wanting to work with warzone refugees outside of the military is a form of escapism from a society I don't like participating in. The self-destruction it causes would be personally validating- helping people that need it- and since it logically culminates in death when MSF hospitals get bombed it's making that choice I'm apathetic toward for me. Before that backpacking fulfilled the same role and let me be an adventurer rather than someone who didn't want to be domesticated. edit: And hiking now- beyond the naturalism and various hobbies tied to it being able to spend 16 miles battling a mountain is where I draw my sense of masculinity from and it fulfills my positive association with l'appel du vide because while it's a physical test I'm one small mistake away from death.
Interesting, thank you! :gold-communist:
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/capitalism-and-desire-in-dialogue-with-psychoanalysis
I think it's this episode which introduced me to the idea. If it wasn't Revleftradio it was some other theory podcast covering the same topic. I haven't yet gotten into the Lacanian side.
Just finished listening at work, general philosophy and Marxism don't get discussed together enough!
This reminds me, I'm reading The Psychic Grid and theres a paragraph where the author says that in order to change people our conditions must change. It was interesting because its not revolutionary theory or anything like that at all. Its about how we "create" the world we live in, in our brains because we don't experience reality directly, only indirectly through the senses. Theres been a few passages like that, liberal philosophers getting real close to understanding how we can make a better world lol. I should post a screenshot or something.
What’s a healthy way a person can express their frustration?
You're asking a Bolshevik. :shrug-outta-hecks:
It's a quest for self-affirmation and rehumanisation. That can be constructive or destructive, like socialist and reactionary politics both being outgrowths of alienation channeled positively or negatively. If you can meet that hierarchy of needs in a way that makes you grow as an individual rather than lash out/inward, that's at least countering the underlying things that give you a magnetic attraction to self-destructive outlets.
you could always just become abnormal and openly tell people about how fucking miserable you are :agony-shivering:
thats what i did
That forms the drive part of the death drive. You end up creating a negative feedback loop which only increases your attraction to those self-destructive behaviours. But if you keep it in or sublimate it, equally toxic if not more so. That's where it becomes a root-level radical issue for me. If an individual self-actualises tomorrow they're still stuck in a system where every collective pressure is meant to break them down so they can be sold the image of self-actualisation.
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This should replace the American flag.