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It's what's called 'Reason' ... [do you even have a clue what's being discussed here, cynical smartalec?].

On Social Causes of Contemporary Pathologies, From Carl Eliot's, "A New Way to Be Mad," in the Atlantic in 2000 [Via I Cite] Anyone with a rudimentary familiarity with the history of psychiatry cannot help but be struck by the way that mental disorders come and go. Conditions like social...

Well, your hopes have been dashed, in this instance. I don't intend responding to a post [borderpolice's] that has already condemned itself, but perhaps you need here yet another "easy" introduction to a different topic: elementary rhetoric and sophistry, and those who utilise it in the guise of...

As The Crisis Worsens ... ["Oh, but why aren't the BBC and ITV and CNN and Fox reporting on all this if its true; after all, they're the authorities, they're the independent medjaa that have colonised our world-view, they wouldn't betray us or anything would they? Unless they had a reason...

I think perhaps, that one of the difficulties or limitations with In The Mood For Love, as with Wong Kar Wai's other work (including Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, and Fallen Angels) is the romantic-melodrama genre itself. But what I found particularly striking about...

dum-de-dum-de-dum ... being engineered to happen ... Government in secret talks about strike against Iran By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 04/02/06 "Telegraph" -- -- The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran...

Be real conservative: don't vote ... "There! There's the Enemy , Shoot it!" :-) Interesting you should mention the NHS, which is likely to become a core issue soon enough, as Britain follows the "Boston Model" of health care (increasing privatisation). Its currently happening in Ireland...

You disappointed? Plans not in accordance with the schedule? Pass the smarties ...

Luka, you're conveniently ignoring the other image, of psychoanalysts, permitting you to bypass the conjunctural satire inherent in justaposing the two images: the Matrix "choice" is a false one ("choose the blue tablet or choose the red tablet" ie reality versus fantasy), as reality itself...

Given that your response focuses on such reactionary indie banality, as opposed to Iran, I believe you've just answered your own question. You've woken up from reality ... [and gone back to (fantasy) sleep again].

It is that, the dominant ideology, its questioning, that is the first move of psychoanalysis. There's something wrong, all right, something that needs "curing" , all right ... "I was cured all right."

No, you said very clearly above that the critiques of D & L were not easy to read, but that there were <i>other</i> critiques that were easier, critiques that stated things more clearly than those critiques. Where are these critiques? And what's behind this obsession with "easyness"? And what...

... though we wish it would. Alas. There has already been a little coverage and [invariably don't-be-bothering-us-with-that-while-we're-watching-TOTPs] discussion about US designs on Iran hereabouts, here, there, yonder, and hither, and so it continues ... War Against Iran, April 2006...

Yes, and just on the eve of the Beckett 100 celebrations ... John McGahern Ireland's leading novelist, whose work reflected his country's new self-confidence Richard Pine Friday March 31, 2006 The Guardian John McGahern, who has died from cancer, aged 71, was arguably the most important...

Yes, I suppose in retrospect we could read it as the first nail in the coffin of theocratic rule; its just that, those very years circa 1929-1932 were perhaps the very foundation of absolute Catholic rule in Ireland, 1932 especially, when DeValera came back to power and the Catholic Hierarchy...

Prejudice? How so? It wasn't even a critique, just a series of questions directed at prevalent mainstream assumptions. There's no need to apologise for it not being your "area of expertise" [as if that somehow precluded you from articulating legitimate views], but you've already altered your...

It's your unexamined, oh-so-easy positive assumptions about nasty psychoanalysis versus holy-grail psychiatry, mainstream psychology, and "mental health practicioners" that are at issue here. "Treating certain disorders". Could you be more specific? Suicidal tendencies, depression, HA-ADD...

Thanks for that historical reference, dharry. It does though, depressingly confirm how different strands of modernism were co-opted/appropriated to reactionary ends, here the use of new technology (concrete) in the service of ecclesiastical, Catholic Church aggrandizement. A bizarre parody of...

Rephrasing, you claim on the one hand that Deleuzeian and Lacanian critiques should be avoided "because they are hard to read if you are not familiar with their languages already", and then, without blinking, that such critiques "don't really say anything that hasn't been said more clearly...

"The category of the new has been central to art since the middle of the last century. . . . there has not been a single accomplished work of art in the last hundred years or so that was able to dodge the concept of modernism. . . . The more art tried to get away from the problematic of...