From: Alan Sondheim (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 06:46:25 PDT
David -
The dada critique has not been absorbed. Dada issues from the
revolutionary unconscious, the territory Freud wished to explore but
condemn to a damnation, (repression the price to pay for civilization)
thereby making psychology an arm of the police.
?? The unconscious is the unconscious; attributes are applied post-mortem.
I don't think you can blame Freud for the uses to which American
psychiatry has been put.
Cari gives a site which has things like
Dadaism had Three Goals :
~ Invent forms of senseless art with the purpose of shaking up the
audience.
~ Not necessarily theatre audience: readers, viewers.
~ Advance the notion of chaos so that all order, all systems, all
conventions be abolished.
~ Wanted to bring about the utmost degree of misunderstanding between
...
But unless I remember my history wrong, this is again post-mortem. Dada
was much more chaotic than this. The goal listing sounds more like a term
paper. After the fact, analysis appears confining, condemning. What
happened then was closer to the (absent) ground of impulsion.
- Alan
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