Lorenzo Chiesa - The God Hypothesis
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
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Is There a Philosophical Anthropology?
I think what is there, both in Freud or at least a certain Freudian reading of Lacan and Marx up to a certain point, is a basic philosophical anthropology. The generosity of the animal that happens to speak has to do with a certain poverty. And however you want to understand that, and it opens up huge questions. I was thinking about the symposium, Plato's symposium, and Aristophanes kind of myth about the proto-humans that were male and female and were one or were whole. In a certain sense they were too powerful, or Zeus was jealous of their harmony, their unity and split them. It can apply to a conception of helplessness in Freudian-
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