PSCI 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Solitary Confinement, Oedipus Complex, Nuclear Family
11 Mar 2016
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Honor-kinship societies phallic function of separation may or may not be paternalized (tends to be accomplished through family and blood interrelationships. Discipline children in ways that instruct them how to desire, how to become moreal within their cultures. Nuclear family dynamics influence children in ways that create cultures of individualism and guilt-disciplines. Traditional communal cultures influence children in ways that create cultures of kinship. Solitary confinement is an extent to guilt culture. Each of us is a child of culture. Caregivers teach us how to desire by disciplining infantile desire. Desire lives in what cultures teach us is desirable. Learned without learning come to us thorugh the dynamics of oedipal separation. We desire honor and sucess without knowing the origins. Honor cultures instruct children to be respectful through public shaming. Uncle is second in command, father works. Through culture we become aware of ourselfes, characteristics appear to be given/natural. The silent language of culture is knowing w/o knowing.
