Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Member-Psyche and Socialism

The concept Member-Psyche connotes that some Species-principle is the fundamental motivation of the behavior of any Member of the Species, a force that can be called the Superid.  Now, a basic problem for a corresponding Member-Psychology is to explain why the awareness that one is a member of the human species, seems to be pervasively lacking in ordinary experience.  One general response is that that absence is inherent in the development of a Member-Psyche, e. g. because of a natural falleness, or because it is a stage in a transition from implicitness to explicitness.  Another is that the absence is contingent, e. g. the product of a repression, such as when Smith prescribes the avoidance of the pursuit of any interest other than one's own.  The latter possibility is especially germane to a project like Marcuse's, since the liberation of Member-Psyches can conduce to the emergence of Socialism.

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