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Hi Venicebard,
Thanks for your reply! It seems we have very different discursive backgrounds, so I admit I only understand half of what you're saying in regards to the details, so if I misinterpret, please excuse me!
- BoT can seem a mishmash of various systems, so I take no offense lol.
- Lacan (not a type, I meant that in a colloquial sense) was a post-Freudian philosopher who basically took all the biology out of Freud, but used all the same concepts by applying them to language. To crudely sum up his writing, he believed the acquisition of language, of difference = the acquisition of consciousness. That's not all of course, but for the purpose of this thread, that should suffice.
- OK, I find this very interesting that 10 is where consciousness is. And I agree, there's really no going backwards from that. I think the reason I saw a backwards progression from 10 to 1 was b/c I relate 10, the material, to the body, the unconscious. I think I was thinking that 1=spirit and 10=flesh, like they are different poles of the same thing and the tree was showing the change from matter to energy, energy to matter.
Would you say then, that instead of this polar model, the tree is a representation of BOTH the development of mind/body, that they are one and the same?
Thanks for your reply! It seems we have very different discursive backgrounds, so I admit I only understand half of what you're saying in regards to the details, so if I misinterpret, please excuse me!
- BoT can seem a mishmash of various systems, so I take no offense lol.
- Lacan (not a type, I meant that in a colloquial sense) was a post-Freudian philosopher who basically took all the biology out of Freud, but used all the same concepts by applying them to language. To crudely sum up his writing, he believed the acquisition of language, of difference = the acquisition of consciousness. That's not all of course, but for the purpose of this thread, that should suffice.
- OK, I find this very interesting that 10 is where consciousness is. And I agree, there's really no going backwards from that. I think the reason I saw a backwards progression from 10 to 1 was b/c I relate 10, the material, to the body, the unconscious. I think I was thinking that 1=spirit and 10=flesh, like they are different poles of the same thing and the tree was showing the change from matter to energy, energy to matter.
Would you say then, that instead of this polar model, the tree is a representation of BOTH the development of mind/body, that they are one and the same?