ICYMI: Why Critical Race Theory as used by the right (and its allies) is a bogeyman.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-as-a-bogeyman?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Replying to @davidrieff
I'm skeptical that psychoanalysis can help with much of anything, let alone dismantling whiteness!
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Fair enough. But the issue is views of the kind expressed in Wood's essay have gained enormous legitimacy in mainstream educational & professional institutions, above all education & medicine. That's why w/respect I don't see how you can dismiss it all as baseless MAGA/Fox panic
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I feel like the fact that this stuff is so strongly aligned to therapeutic culture & also corporate public relations is a sign of its ineffectuality & tendency to reinforce the status quo, rather than it being a radical threat.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @davidrieff
Will be interested in your book. I'm planning on doing a podcast about your father & his relevance for today, talking with one of his students.
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Yes, you get it exactly. I'm taking off from "The Triumph of the Therapeutic," and I suppose will include a (very!) small amount of personal reflections, with a view to in a sense "rewriting" it for the 2020s.
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It's a great topic for a book. "Triumph" is prophetic but things have changed enough that it does need an updating/rewriting. I'll write you when I'm closer to doing the podcast. Might be good to have you on as well.
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I think the book's greatest weakness is in its view of the triumph of therapeutic culture as inextricably tied to the triumph of the erotic, the Dionysian. Though I can see how it might appear this way still (trans, non-binary, etc.), I think if anything the reverse has happened
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Yes, the Dionysian argument seems a period piece (of the era of Lolita, Couples & Portnoy). There's been a complicated transformation of sex-as-desire to sex-as-identity, which is part of all this.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Exactly. And even fluidity of sexual identity as a new incarnation of Puritanism.
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