28 nov 2006

Does the misanthrope hate himself? Or does he think himself an exception?

9 comentarios:

Jordan dijo...

The misanthrope only hates himself. The rest is pronoun confusion.

Jonathan dijo...

Or not. Those were the possibilities that occured to me, but there are others. The misanthrope, for example, might hate others because they are not him (zero tolerance of difference), not because they are human per se. Imagine a dog intolerant of the smell of any other dog.

Jordan dijo...

Speak of the devil.

John dijo...

More than 10 years ago I wrote a song about the self-hating narcissist who sees his own face everywhere he looks. The name of the song is "Anger."

The anger was inspired by a boss who lied to me. The song did not reflect that bit of specific social content, though it did include a dialogical element.

Jonathan dijo...

I fear the run-of-the-mill misanthrope might lack that Nietzschean scope. (Hi Jordan, what's up?) I would never feel superior to a Nietzche. On the other hand I wouldn't confine him to the "misanthrope" label either. It would seem a little narrow to call Nietzche, Kafka or Baudelaire by the name. Not that it doesn't have relevance, but those figures are so much more than that.

John dijo...

Psychological analyses often exclude the social in practice, but not always; and, please note that lack of psychological acuity has repeatedly proven debilitating to social praxis.

Nietzsche did not disdain the psychological -- far from it; very odd to invoke him in an argument *against* the psychological.

John dijo...

Jane -- forgive me, I got distracted and missed your last comment before posting mine. "The aggression of charity" is precisely a psychological insight, one much elaborated on by the Freudians.

Joseph Duemer dijo...

"The aggression of charity" is precisely a psychological insight, one much elaborated on by the Freudians.

To say nothing of Charles Dickens, who prefigures Freud in so many ways. Just recall the "charity" in Bleak House, for example.

Me, I think the misanthrope hates both himself & others, but in different ways.

Anónimo dijo...

jordan go away with your continued fake logics of the self. misanthropy is a real problem which predicates your notions. misanthropics hate, period. yes yes, sure for the record, it's rooted in social inequality-ty-ty.