I also think "authenticity" is routinely interpreted to mean following subjective whims/fancies, which is asinine. Authenticity is closely entwined w/Heid's notion of the conscience as the self calling out to itself from its deepest reservoirs beyond the purview of "flanuery".
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The difference between this notion of the deep-self & others is that Heid's is not abstract & demarcated from the world-at-large. It's contextually-sensitive & what one is called to do is not static.
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So what differentiates Heid's authentic individual from the flanuer & how to tell a normie?: The authentic individual takes up a social role, knowing full well he could do otherwise, & is true to himself in that the self is not a demarcated ego.
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At times, he strives for things outside the bounds of normalcy, but the impetus for doing so is not hedonistic nor based on arbitrary subjective whims.
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This character is more akin to the tragic hero who takes up an impossible/monumental task than the artist who eats turds to break social convention. This is why the social-moral components of Heidy are hard to understand without a more old-school Greco-Roman aesthetic sensibility
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Ahhh I see, so this comportment towards the self entails the Greek notions of virtue, aesthetic action, etc. Not just dandyism, but how does heid guarantee that the self won't just slip into relativism and dandyism?
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And why did heid dislike the notion of the unconscious when authenticity almost resembles jungian individuation?
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Replying to @giantgio @doseofpercocets
As for his disdain for psychoanalysis, there may be a few reasons. I think he found the whole enterprise superfluous. Also, he found Freud (idk about Jung) to be overly reductionistic. Heid is similar to D&G in that the present psyche/experience cannot be reduced to its isolated
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approximate cause (e.g. the Wolfman is not to be equated with past psychological trauma). Also, Heid probably saw psychoanalysis as to prone to Cartesian demarcation. The psyche is cleaved away from its context (environmental, social, etc) & suspended in isolation over the world
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Even if one may say that the demarcations aren't ontological or literal, he'd probably say their division of categories are also too absolute in terms of functionality as well as too static - I really don't know the extent to which this would hit Jung though
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Oh I see, it's so clear now that like D and G he was warding off all the previous biases of western phil till that point, in western science he also found this demarcation and reification of human civilization above the space of nature (ALA agamben's work on heid)
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Replying to @giantgio @doseofpercocets
Ye son. Heid is more extreme about it but that's what makes D&G interesting tho. Instead of out-righting casting social/scientific/psychological preasuppositions or reifications to the wind (á la Heid), they pick them up as tools for occasional use.
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