by Heinrich manoeuvre » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:08 am
King Kong wrote:"mental illness is not currently a recognized criminal offense in Cambodia, but it will be when the new penal code comes into effect"
Well that should be a real boon as (according to a leading mental health NGO) ~ 60% of the native population is mentally ill.
This is not even taking into account the abnormally high % of expats who are as well.
There is a frazzle-haired guy who sits in front of the SMILE 24-hour joint talking to himself for hours at a time.
Maybe if the "developed" countries could get their acts together we wouldn't have so many mentally-ill refugees coming over here giving us all a worse image than we already have.
Hmmm, well according to Ziggy's conclusions in his essay on 'Civilization and Its Discontents' he states:
I hasten to come to a close. But there is one question which I can hardly evade. If the development of civilization has such a far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization—possibly the whole of mankind—have become ‘neurotic’?
An analytic dissection of such neuroses might lead to therapeutic recommendations which could lay claim to great practical interest. I would not say that an attempt of this kind to carry psycho-analysis over to the cultural community was absurd or doomed to be fruitless. But we should have to be very cautious and not forget that, after all, we are only dealing with analogies and that it is dangerous, not only with men but also with concepts, to tear them from the sphere in which they have originated and been evolved.
Moreover, the diagnosis of communal neurosis is faced with a special difficulty. In an individual neurosis we take as our starting -point the contrast that distinguishes the patient from his environment, which is assumed to be ‘normal’. For a group all of whose members are affected by one and the same disorder no such background could exist; it would have to be found elsewhere. And as regards the therapeutic application of our knowledge, what would be the use of the most correct analysis of social neuroses, since no one possesses authority to impose such a therapy upon the group?
But in spite of all these difficulties we may expect that one day someone will venture to embark upon a pathology of cultural communities.
-Sigmund Freud
Is he saying that it is a thin line between Swiss chocolate and poo not only for the individual but also for the masses?
[quote="King Kong"][b]"mental illness is not currently a recognized criminal offense in Cambodia, but it will be when the new penal code comes into effect"[/b]
Well that should be a real boon as (according to a leading mental health NGO) ~ 60% of the native population is mentally ill.
This is not even taking into account the abnormally high % of expats who are as well.
There is a frazzle-haired guy who sits in front of the SMILE 24-hour joint talking to himself for hours at a time.
Maybe if the "developed" countries could get their acts together we wouldn't have so many mentally-ill refugees coming over here giving us all a worse image than we already have.[/quote]
Hmmm, well according to Ziggy's conclusions in his essay on 'Civilization and Its Discontents' he states:
[quote]I hasten to come to a close. But there is one question which I can hardly evade. If the development of civilization has such a far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization—possibly the whole of mankind—have become ‘neurotic’?
An analytic dissection of such neuroses might lead to therapeutic recommendations which could lay claim to great practical interest. I would not say that an attempt of this kind to carry psycho-analysis over to the cultural community was absurd or doomed to be fruitless. But we should have to be very cautious and not forget that, after all, we are only dealing with analogies and that it is dangerous, not only with men but also with concepts, to tear them from the sphere in which they have originated and been evolved.
Moreover, the diagnosis of communal neurosis is faced with a special difficulty. [b]In an individual neurosis we take as our starting -point the contrast that distinguishes the patient from his environment, which is assumed to be ‘normal’. For a group all of whose members are affected by one and the same disorder no such background could exist; it would have to be found elsewhere.[/b] And as regards the therapeutic application of our knowledge, what would be the use of the most correct analysis of social neuroses, since no one possesses authority to impose such a therapy upon the group?
But in spite of all these difficulties we may expect that one day someone will venture to embark upon a pathology of cultural communities.
-Sigmund Freud[/quote]
Is he saying that it is a thin line between Swiss chocolate and poo not only for the individual but also for the masses?