tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7672699549813977972..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Essential Truth & the God of GaplessnessGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27165553690634663332018-07-18T12:04:52.236-07:002018-07-18T12:04:52.236-07:00It would have to be a modest wish or a slight fant...<i>It would have to be a modest wish or a slight fantasy or a mild delusion. This doesn't actually eliminate the gap between Is and Want, or Truth and Desire, but just papers it over with what Bion calls hallucinosis:<br /><br />In other words, the patient... has to deny the existence of an external reality that restricts, oppresses and threatens him with the pain of frustration. Therefore, the only "reality" in which he "believes" is the "reality" generated by himself through the method of hallucinosis.</i><br /><br />The process of selling a home - or seeking a spouse, for that matter - is littered with the detritus of thwarted expectations. On the seller's part, the expectation that someone will come seeking and like what he finds enough to want to buy what is actually there, and on the buyer's part, the expectation that somehow the raw material of what is actually there can be transformed into the HGTV home of their dreams without massive outlays of time and money. <br /><br />From the masculinity article, <br /><i>“If men and women are aware of the positives and negatives of chivalry/benevolent sexism, then it is men's choice whether to act chivalrous to women and women's choice whether to approve of it or not,” she pointed out. </i><br /><br />Interesting how only men are presumed capable of benevolent sexism. If women chose to practice the same - that is, to act like ladies in response to men acting like gentlemen - the world would be a happier place.<br /><br />There's that gap between truth and fantasy again...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9786678433122449042018-07-18T10:25:02.931-07:002018-07-18T10:25:02.931-07:00Researchers say masculinity training 'ignores ...<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11134" rel="nofollow">Researchers say masculinity training 'ignores human nature'</a>. The question is, what is the compromise position between the way men are and the way liberals wish men were? Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.com