2008-02-02

Freud and Avicenna (İbni Sina)

(I have the fear I will dye before I could say everything I wanted to say. Maybe I have already said enough but it was not enough to me.)
Recently I had a book in my hand: "Sex on the couch" by Richard Boothby. After the preface, which was interesting to me, I was disappointed. Because the subject was very different from my expactations annd it was very different from the book "Freud as Philosopher".
The language of the book was fluent and it was written in a popular language, where you can even laugh here and there. But the book "Freud as Philosopher" was written in another language.
Anyway, what do I wanted to say?
Why is Freud interesting to me? And why he was interesting before? It is because of his epistemology, which is not an epistemology... He has shown to me that so called "hard sciences" are based on a very ignorant foundation... (namely: all the things I can see and I can measure. This was ofcourse a reductionist way on the way to knowledge for "absolute" knowledge... like Foucault has mentioned in the book "The Order of Things" ) And there is ofcourse nothing like "absolute"...
Actually he has undermined the very foundations of Western science theory... He has brought "sagesse" to the West against the mainstream of the 19th Century... As C.G. Jung has mentioned out the West was eager for "Wissen", for knowledge and not for sagesse... And especially for the knowledge on dead things, on objects, on material power... and there was no interest for human at all. (Also shown in "The Order of the Things")
This is the revolutionary thing about Psychoanalysis... Annd ofcourse not the Oedip or Sex theory not even the Dream Theory... They are interesting theories for sure and he is a genius no doubt but he had not "discovered" "sex" in the 20th century... This would be ridiculous... therefore I hate all the derivations of these stupid interpretations of Freudian theory...

But what with "Avicenna" ?

Once upon a time ( I have really a vague remembrance in my mind from this book) I have read in a book that the theory of Freud was influenced by his jewish roots... As I was a stupid child then I didn t understand much from this...But as I get older I have understood more... Freud was the old type of "doctor"... Actualy they were not "doctors"... They were holist people who have not divided the human being into an "res extansa" and "res cogitans"... He was really something like a magicien... which is 1000 more beautiful than an average "doctor"... A "western doctor" is like a mass product of clothing industry, (like confektion and not haute couture...
It is true that not all of the people needs "haute couture", so a normal doctor would be o.k. in most of the cases...

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