[Xmca-l] Re: Covid as World Perezhivanie?

[mike cole]

Greg-

If there is a one right way to interpret the term, perezhivanie, I have no
idea what it is.  The term is polysemic in Russian.  I would suggest that
people
check out the special issue of MCA devoted to this topic.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/23/4?nav=tocList__;!!Mih3wA!WKwgnbs6JQqRsIY-0s7DdDKMDdHpKGpBUzVDyoIBP9kN0KTK1bO_Vymkx4GzNKd3LD-A-w$ 

These viewpoints are not exhaustive.

The other night I was watching "Servant of the People"  created by
Volodymir Zelensky on netflix. Absolutely amazing, funny, and very very
political. The most outstanding case of life imitating art I have yet
encountered.  In the program, which is in Russian with subtitles in
English,  an irate father, irritated by his
son's failure to grasp the nature of corruption in Ukraine tells him  "dont
perezhvai"  in a manner that roughly translates as "don't get upset about
it."  The example lacks the "pere"  suffix (the over again aspect) of
re-experiencing an intense emotion/cognition. But this everyday meaning is
used commonly.

To me, the idea of "world perezhivanie" points to the fact that we are all
"living through a period of suffering" with lots of cognitions, but it for
those still standing
20 years from now to reflect back on.  The crisis is just beginning.


my 2 kopeks
mike

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:03 AM Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm wondering about Andy's suggestion that covid-19 is a (or maybe "is
> creating a"?) world perezhivanie. That seems a really rich suggestion but
> I'm not sure how many of us on the list really understand what he means by
> this.
>
> Andy tends to just tell me to go read more and so I'm wondering if someone
> else might be willing to take a stab at explaining what he might mean.
>
> Also, as a critical intervention, I am wondering whether covid-19 is the
> "same" for everyone. We have folks in the U.S. who think it is basically
> just a typical flu that has been turned into a political tool to attack the
> current president. Or does that not matter for perezhivanie?
>
> (and just to be clear, my question is not whether or not this is true or
> right or beautiful to think this way; my question is whether or not this is
> how people are actually experiencing the world since I assume that this is
> what perezhivanie is supposed to be "getting at". Or am I misunderstanding
> perezhivanie?)
>
> So is there really a shared perezhivanie here?
> (Is The Problem of Age the place to look for answers?)
>
> But if no one wants to take this up (perhaps too much ink has been spilt
> over perezhivanie?), that's fine too.
>
> Cheers,
> greg
>
>
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