Derrida

Blogger really needs to be more aware that I may or may not remember my password every time I log in, and stop trying to block me from posting on my own blog. If someone were to hack into my blog, they couldn't possibly make me sound like even more of an idiot even if they tried, so let them hack it. Anyway.
I thought a lot more about what Derrida said about love and narcissism.
I actually had never heard the story of Echo and Narcissa before, so that was kind of a treat for me to figure out where the ideas of blind love and narcissism itself came from.
Love is really the most complicated and broad topic to be talked about. When we talk about love, are we speaking about who we love as a person vs. what we love about a person? Derrida says he cannot possibly chose because if you fall out of love with someone for their qualities you don't like, you must love the person for who they are, which is someone made up of those qualities. People aren't just beings, they have certain qualities about them that make them into the singular person that they are.
A Narcissist is someone who is self-absorbed and doesn't care about others aka My aunt Jane. That makes sense now. Narcissa was a Greek mythical figure who fell in love with his own reflection and actually died looking at it. However, he managed to find love in Echo, another mythical figure who could only repeat the ends of others phrases (so basically he fell in love with her for repeating what he said). I'd never heard this before, but now the words make sense I suppose. One goes through a "healthy" narcissistic phase as a tike, and if you get out of it, you move onto realizing that the entire world doesn't revolve around you.
The documentary taught me a lot on these things, and I don't know much about psychoanalytic theory except from the beginning psych classes I have taken here, but I feel like we're about to delve really deep into theory based on human nature. I didn't really take enough from the first class on it to blog about it, but I bet idea of subjects and Descartes and cartesian ethnics and enlightened philosophy will come into play next time. See yaaaa.