crypto-Christian?
Here is an idea I'm throwing out about everyday life studies as invented by Michel de Certeau -- its flattery of ordinary people, its idealization of everyday life is crypto-Christian.
De Certeau thinks he's following Freud, but Freud's crypto-Judaism praises not the everyman for his inventiveness, but exists in a state of mimetic fraternity with his senseless suffering, his unhappiness, his kvetchy discontentment.
Why is Freud not so "up with people" like the cultural studies academics who are always praising that mythic, unicorn of an ordinary person who is always eluding our grasp?
There is a certain "realism" about Jewishness that Christians find hard to take. I remember the mid-Westerner appalled by Jewish jokes, which are entirely deflationary in their logic...
Which do you think produces a more compelling political narrative -- in the long run?
De Certeau thinks he's following Freud, but Freud's crypto-Judaism praises not the everyman for his inventiveness, but exists in a state of mimetic fraternity with his senseless suffering, his unhappiness, his kvetchy discontentment.
Why is Freud not so "up with people" like the cultural studies academics who are always praising that mythic, unicorn of an ordinary person who is always eluding our grasp?
There is a certain "realism" about Jewishness that Christians find hard to take. I remember the mid-Westerner appalled by Jewish jokes, which are entirely deflationary in their logic...
Which do you think produces a more compelling political narrative -- in the long run?
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