Saturday, December 12, 2009

castoriadis

• "The psyche is not a well-oiled, rational mechanism. The psyche is essentially radical imagination, a perpetually surging flux of representations, desires, and affects. " [Castoriadis]
• "This creativity of the human imagination is at the root of the most severe psychical and political problems...the human psyche is amoral, but also asocial and acosmic. This also means that as such, left to itself, it is radically unfit for life..." [Castoriadis]
• "...the radical imagination is what distinguishes human psyche from animal psyche. The radical imagination makes the psyche capable of producing those representations, those phantasms, which are not the outcome of perceptions...."[Castoriadis]

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