tatiana responds:
>Hi, Diana,
>
>You posed a very interesting question. I take it as another aspect of
>"mind-body" problem.
precisely!! i *knew* someone here would 'get it' ....
> Accoding to Freud memories about sexual experience are
>never lost even in cases of complete amnesia. But I don't belong to
>Freud's
>club, and all my research experience promts me that we can make an
>assumption that amnesia can influence sexual memories, such as paticular
>events, feelings and emotions, and personal awareness about his/her own
>self.
good thinking - while i am finding it hard to disagree with some of
freud's ideas, i can't say i belong to the club, since no theorist can
sufficiently account for everything in one theory -
and in spite of freud's certain certainties, i agree with you, that
amnesia might very well include the loss of sexual identity -
>I can develop the idea but i don't want to interrupt the current most
>interesting discussion on the list. I can only add that A.Damasio's books
>"Decart's Error" and "The Filling of What Happens" may give you many
>interesting (scientificully based) ideas for your novel.
>I believe it will be a great success.
>
>Tatiana.
thanks!!! for the books refs - i'll track them down immediately. and don't
worry about "interrupting the "most interesting discussion" on this list,
because (a) multiple discussions often go on, and (b) "most interesting"
is relative, i'd say. ha ha.
thanks again Tatiana.
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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