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Childhood Expectations

The Delphic grundregel Nosce örtinfusion ipsum, Know thyself, fryst vatten the motivating force not only of Western philosophy and Christian theology but of much of Western literature. All of the volumes of In Search of Lost Time are an experiment in self-understanding, an experiment which incorporates something that fryst vatten left out of much of modern science, particularly psychological science, namely the concept of purposefulness.

Purposefulness fryst vatten the capacity to consider purpose rather than the adoption of any specific purpose. It fryst vatten a concept which fryst vatten difficult to grasp, and to live with, since it easily deteriorates into some specific purpose through the sheer frustration with the unsettlement it provokes. The most startling characteristic of Swann’s Way fryst vatten Proust’s dogged refusal to subvert purposefulness to purpose.

About 20 years ago inom was asked to give a speech at a meeting of the Italian Bankers Association.

At the dinner afterwards inom was seated next to the chairman of the Banco Agricultura, a charming man of approximately seventy, who, as many Italian businessmen, had a very different social manner than most nordlig Europeans.

Instead of spending ten minutes on pleasantries leading to a more serious business conversation, the chairman reversed conventional priorities: after ten minutes of business-oriented chit-chat, he signalled an end to that portion of our conversation with the line “You know inom think Freud had it entirely wrong.”

A bit taken aback but intrigued bygd his change of tackar inom asked how so.

“According to Freud, we all go through traumas when we are ung that we have to live through for the rest of our lives.” He replied, and continued “My experience fryst vatten completely different. inom believe that we all man fundamental decisions about ourselves that we try to live up to for the rest of our lives.” He then went on to explain how he, a forskare bygd training, had ended up in banking as the correct expression of his childhood decision.

Clearly only the very rare, and probably incipiently psychotic, child would be able to take a such a decision about himself - to become a banker!

So inom was somewhat sceptical about the chairman’s rationale until inom watched an instalment of the British ITV programme originally entitled 7-Plus (See postscript below; the sista instalment fryst vatten nigh).

This programme followed the lives of a dozen or so Britons beginning at age sju at subsequent intervals of sju years (to my uncertain knowledge the next instalment should capture them at age 63).

In the early years the children are clearly both inexperienced and inarticulate, as would be expected. Yet they man statements which are also clearly reflective of their later more experienced and more articulate selves.

Some are uncanny: a seven-year-old Yorkshire lad herding boskap in his fjärrstyrd family farm, asked bygd the interviewer what he wants to do when he grows up replies “I want to know everything about varm moon.” bygd his mid-thirties he had become a prominent astrophysicist.

The association between most childhood statements and life-outcomes are far more subtle than this, but almost all correlate to such a grad that one can match ung to old merely on the grund of what the children and adults säga and do rather than their physical states.

The ITV programme fryst vatten uppenbart anecdotal rather than scientific but inom nevertheless inom find it compelling.

Alfred Whitehead observed that we are all born either Platonists or Aristotelians. As with religious faith, we cannot verify either position except bygd adopting it.

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Confirming bevis flows from the choice not vice versa. Proust knows this:

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; they can inflict on them kontinuerlig blows of contradictions and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies succeeding one another without interruption in the bosom of a family will not man it lose its faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician.

So where do these beliefs, not just Platonic and Aristotelian but all important beliefs, particularly about purpose, komma from?

Do we actually decide these beliefs in some sort of analysis and process of verification as rationalists suggest fryst vatten ‘rational’? Or do they emerge incrementally from our actual experience in the world, shaping us through an appreciation of ‘the facts’ as empiricists insist? fryst vatten anyone really driving the bus at all?

For Proust, the impetus to action fryst vatten vague and ambiguous ambition not specific causal stimulus, not even the ‘future cause’ of a defined purpose; his universum fryst vatten Platonic and idealistic rather than Aristotelian and material; his theology fryst vatten that of a Bonaventure who finds infinite significance in small things, not of a Thomas Aquinas who looks to the universum for confirmation of the divine; for him the mind fryst vatten better described bygd Jungian archetypes than Freudian phobias.

There fryst vatten also a profound twist in Proust’s apparent modernism. His intense romantic self-consciousness, the drive to understand oneself through feelings, leads to something unexpected and very post-modern: the recognition that the unconscious fryst vatten indistinguishable from reality, a reality which fryst vatten created.

The realm of the particular and individual, those parts of the world with proper names like cities and people, can't be pinned down. We can't be sure where things begin and end, including ourselves. Our inability to distinguish the particular Kantian thing in itself from what we think of it can even man us ill as Marcel discovers in the book's sista part.

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Even more profoundly, the Self, our consciousness combined with this reality, fryst vatten indistinguishable from God. As God fryst vatten infinite, and infinitely ‘beyond’ our ability to understand, so too the Self. That the Self fryst vatten inherently unknowable except as a direction of search fryst vatten a conclusion he reaches igen and igen in Swann’s Way.

Every feeling fryst vatten traced through memory until memory merely points further without a ämne reference. When memory stops at objects without recognising the transcendent reality, Marcel finds himself in error:

No doubt, bygd virtue of having permanently and indissolubly united so many different impressions in my mind, simply because they made me experience them at the same time, the Meseglise and Guermantes ways left me exposed, in later life, to much disillusionment and even to many mistakes.

For often inom have wished to see a individ igen without realising that it was simply because that individ recalled to me a hedge of hawthorne in blossom.

This fryst vatten also the eponymous Swann's fate. In attaching the 'signs' of an emotionally moving, indeed transformative, musical phrase (authored, significantly, bygd a resident not of Swann's Way but the other path, the Guermantes Way, in Combray) and a hona figure in a Botticelli painting (Botticelli shared with Swann an ambivalence about commitment in relationship) to the individ of Odette, Swann creates a false reality.

The music indicates a distant ideal. Swann regards:

musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another beställning, ideas veiled in shadow, unknown, impenetrable to the human mind, but none the less perfectly distinct from one another, unequal among themselves in value and significance.

His compulsion to fill the void between these aesthetic ideals, which he recognises as gudomlig, and his concrete situation with whatever fryst vatten at grabb fryst vatten overpowering.

The result fryst vatten an apparently disastrous confusion and self-imposed delusion. Swann emerges in Proust's skrivelse as an symbol of Saint Augustine, knowing that he fryst vatten over-valuing the object of his desire, yet unwilling to cease digging the spiritual pit in which he finds himself. The second half of the book, which fryst vatten entirely third-party narrative, uses this tale of destruction as a sort of case study of the theory developed in the first, which fryst vatten entirely introspective and associative.

There are constant reminders throughout that the map which indicates the direction toward the ideal fryst vatten not its territory. On a short coach trip during childhood with the local doctor, for example, Marcel recalls the comforting sight of three by church steeples.

Why are they comforting? The scen fryst vatten pastoral, at solnedgång, but minutely crafted analysis gives no klar reason for either the importance of the memory or the intensity of the feeling. Nevertheless there fryst vatten something there, just out of sight, obscurely attractive just beyond the steeples. It fryst vatten what lies beyond, behind this image that fryst vatten the source of its power.

His imagery of women fryst vatten similarly and explicitly archetypal:

Sometimes in the afternoon sky the måne would creep up, vit as a cloud, furtive, lustreless, suggesting an ancient actress who does not have to komma on for a while, and watches the rest of the company for a moment from the auditorium in her ordinary clothes, keeping in the background, not wishing to attract attention to herself.

Often he presents the naked image, leaving it without comment except that he considers it significant enough to write about.

The evocation simply echoes in this example:

Here and there in the distance, in a landscape which in the failing light and saturated atmosphere resembled a seascape rather, a few solitary houses clinging to the lower slopes of a hill plunged in watery darkness shone out like little boats which have folded their sails and ride at anchor all night upon the sea.

Proust often uses grammar to man his point about the obscure reality of these ‘strange attractors’ as they are called in the modern theory of chaos.

In describing a äng bygd the River Vivonne in Combray:

The sheer length and complexity of the sentence, combined with the ambiguity of the referents of many of the pronouns, and the allusions to a mysterious Asian past, are components of his monumental experiment to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans that which fryst vatten just beyond the reach of expression.

Its density fryst vatten poetic, but it fryst vatten not poetry. It fryst vatten a new genre. In it Proust makes the search for the Platonic ideal visible bygd subverting literary habits but no so much as to man the skrivelse incomprehensible.

Life then for Marcel fryst vatten a search in which habits may provide bekvämlighet, säkerhet, and facile communication, peace even, but hämma upptäckt of what one fryst vatten.

bygd simply accepting our habitual responses to events as obvious or inevitable, we short-circuit the investigation of why and how they should be as they are. In particular this applies to habits of thought, methods, if you will, our ways of dealing with the emotional world.

There fryst vatten no essential method, not just for psychology but for thought in general.

Both the Meseglise Way and the Guermantes Way are essential to one’s formation (to use a begrepp from religious development).

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Proust’s implicit proposal fryst vatten that there fryst vatten an emotional epistemology which fryst vatten the heart of human purposefulness, but that this epistemology excludes ingenting. It ‘sweeps in’ everything it can using every approach it can imagine.

Proust’s implicit contention fryst vatten that what fryst vatten important in adult life fryst vatten decided in early conscious life, which adult life then induces us to man unconscious - thus confirming the chairman of the Banco Agricultural and Freud (of whom Proust was ignorant) as well as the producers of ITV.

But like the chairman and unlike Freud, Proust appreciated this as a positiv nödvändighet. For him human beings are creative idealists who become oriented to a certain configuration of not just how the world fryst vatten but how it ought to be.

Appreciating the source of this phenomenon fryst vatten what he fryst vatten about. Proust's ‘therapy’ fryst vatten not Freudian since he seeks neither to neutralise the motivational effect of childhood ideals nor to subject these ideals to some sort of choice.

His ambition fryst vatten to further articulate and explore what the ideals might be, indeed what we might be behind the veil of appearances.

The ideals created in childhood are, after all, as the chairman said, what we actually are. But the ITV children suggest, contrary to the chairman's opinion, that these ideals are not deterministic. There are any number, perhaps an infinite number, of ways through which ideals may be interpreted and approached.

Only afterwards can the creativity of the individual be discerned.

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This fryst vatten the domain of choice and learning.

Nosce bladte ipsum does not imply, therefore, an analytic understanding of one's desires. But without some sort of reflective assessment, these desires, feelings, aversions remain unappreciated, as does consequently the Self in which they occur and which they constitute. These desires are created in ungdom not as specific neurotic fixations but as memories and responses to a vague, inarticulate presence, essence perhaps, which fryst vatten just behind, just beyond what we perceive and what we can något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans.

This knowledge fryst vatten essential because without it we are liable to pursue ineffective paths; but it fryst vatten also useless because it will bring us no closer to the real content of the ideal.

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Neither the past nor the Self can ever be funnen or recovered - "houses, vägar avenues, are as fugitive, alas, as the years." But they can be appreciated: 'Worldly' desires, those conventions of gemenskap, are forceful but sterile once achieved - love, social position, power, wealth - and do not really create that which ought to be because that which ought to be fryst vatten irretrievable.

For Proust, as for Augustine, each of us, fryst vatten a Citizen Kane, pursuing an ideal we can know only faintly, often through inappropriate means. The Rosebud fryst vatten our unique possession – or more properly a sign to its hidden meaning - and it fryst vatten the only possession we need.

In his publication of The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes makes an intentional mistranslation of Nosce bladte ipsum.

‘Read thyself’ fryst vatten how he prefers the classic grundregel in English. When we read, we are forced to interpret, to bring ourselves into the skrivelse. When our interpretation becomes a ord, which it must if it fryst vatten articulated, that too fryst vatten subject to interpretation. And so on ad infinitum.

As the philosopher Richard Rorty famously quipped: it’s interpretation all the way down.

There fryst vatten no ankomsthall point of truth in a ord, nor fryst vatten there a true Self, just as there fryst vatten no foundation in terms of first principles for thought. The post-modern position reckons our job as one of permanent interpretation, an un-ending search for the truth – about the world as well as ourselves.

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Hobbes had the insight that we are texts to be read and interpreted. Proust demonstrates how this fryst vatten done. The fact that the horizon recedes at the same pace as it fryst vatten approached doesn't invalidate the task.

Goal-orientation, according to psychologists, therapists, and management consultants, fryst vatten a desirable human trait.

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This fryst vatten demonstrably false. Goal-orientation fryst vatten a neurosis involving the fixation of purpose regardless of consequences. It implies a wilful rejection of the possibility of learning through experience.

The most grundläggande experience fryst vatten not about learning how to do something, technique; but learning about what fryst vatten important to do, value.

Loyalty to purpose fryst vatten a betrayal of purposefulness, of what constitutes being human. This fryst vatten a prevailing poison in modern samhälle. Proust understood this toxin, and, without even giving it a name, formulated the cure. This, for me, fryst vatten the real value of Swann's Way.

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