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At this moment, the dominion of Lacan and Foucault comes to an end: the notion that mind comes from "up above" or "out there." The claim that there is no such thing as a human psyche--separate from discourse.
What was claimed to be a "return to Freud" was actually a negation of Freud, whose fundamental idea was "from below upward."
Howard F. Stein coined the term "psychogeography"-- hypothesizing that we create the external world based on experiences generated from within. Norman O. Brown stated that we create culture in order to "Project the infantile complexes into concrete reality, where they can be seen and mastered."
In the flight from our bodies, scholars created a colossal number of words--and complex, convoluted theories--as a defense against reality.
Richard Koenigsberg
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"Foucault should be read backwards: it is not the discourse that shapes the body; instead, the body is a source of discourse." (Antonio Grgic)
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In "ARCHITECTURE AS A SIGN OF RITES OF PASSAGE,"
Antonio Grgić (Graz University of Technology, Institute of Architectural Theory, Arts and Cultural Studies) writes: |
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According to Richard Koenigsberg, the individual ego tends to identify itself with the national one; he claims that human beings exist in a symbolic relation with their societies. Individuals identify very profoundly and our ego may become one with the national ego. According to Koenigsberg, Foucault should be read backwards: it is not the discourse that shapes the body; instead, the body is a source of discourse. Body politic is not a mere metaphor, but expresses the fact that the nation is experienced as the body.
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Ron Leighton in "A GORY GIFT TO TRUMP"
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Social Psychologist Richard Koenigsberg has said: “Nations are conceived as bodies. We project our own body into a national body. One’s fragile, vulnerable self is blown up—to become a gigantic, omnipotent self. Because territory is imagined in corporeal terms (Neocleous), the state seeks to secure it borders—its “orifices and entry points.”
Orifices and entry points must be closed—to prevent penetration. Porous boundaries need to be firmed up, sealed off—walls built to protect the vulnerable self. One’s actual, fragile body fuses with the fantasy of a of a gigantic, invulnerable body. National bodies require borders to prevent penetration. Anxiety is played out on a monumental scale. Walls must be built—nothing can be allowed to penetrate. Each and every orifice must be sealed.”
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