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| this was interesting enough that it waranted coming back to xanga for the first time in forever: Freud's theory of infantile sexuality must be seen as an integral part of a broader developmental theory of human personality. This had its origins in, and was a generalisation of, Breuer's earlier discovery that traumatic childhood events could have devastating negative effects upon the adult individual, and took the form of the general thesis that early childhood sexual experiences were the crucial factors in the determination of the adult personality. From his account of the instincts or drives it followed that from the moment of birth the infant is driven in his actions by the desire for bodily/sexual pleasure, where this is seen by Freud in almost mechanical terms as the desire to release mental energy. Initially, infants gain such release, and derive such pleasure, through the act of sucking, and Freud accordingly terms this the 'oral' stage of development. This is followed by a stage in which the locus of pleasure or energy release is the anus, particularly in the act of defecation, and this is accordingly termed the 'anal' stage. Then the young child develops an interest in its sexual organs as a site of pleasure (the 'phallic' stage), and develops a deep sexual attraction for the parent of the opposite sex, and a hatred of the parent of the same sex (the 'Oedipus complex'). This, however, gives rise to (socially derived) feelings of guilt in the child, who recognises that it can never supplant the stronger parent. In the case of a male, it also puts the child at risk, which he perceives - if he persists in pursuing the sexual attraction for his mother, he may be harmed by the father; specifically, he comes to fear that he may be castrated. This is termed 'castration anxiety'. Both the attraction for the mother and the hatred are usually repressed, and the child usually resolves the conflict of the Oedipus complex by coming to identify with the parent of the same sex. This happens at the age of five, whereupon the child enters a 'latency' period, in which sexual motivations become much less pronounced. This lasts until puberty, when mature genital development begins, and the pleasure drive refocuses around the genital area.
This, Freud believed, is the sequence or progression implicit in normal human development, and it is to be observed that at the infant level the instinctual attempts to satisfy the pleasure drive are frequently checked by parental control and social coercion. The developmental process, then, is for the child essentially a movement through a series of conflicts, the successful resolution of which is crucial to adult mental health. Many mental illnesses, particularly hysteria, Freud held, can be traced back to unresolved conflicts experienced at this stage, or to events which otherwise disrupt the normal pattern of infantile development. For example, homosexuality is seen by some Freudians as resulting from a failure to resolve the conflicts of the Oedipus complex, particularly a failure to identify with the parent of the same sex; the obsessive concern with washing and personal hygiene which characterises the behaviour of some neurotics is seen as resulting from unresolved conflicts/repressions occurring at the anal stage.
academics are killing me, but i've been great. honestly i feel like i need a break though. i'm stressin out a good amount over here as always. sometimes i wonder if i'm the only one stressin out about this, or if i just complain a lot. haha. hope you all been doin good. take care guys and hope to see all of you soon | | |
| interesting email i got... Dear Timothy,
ASIJ urgently needs your help.
This past December it was announced, to great fanfare, onstage at the Ricketson
Theater, that ASIJ alumnus Jin Roy Ryu '77 had offered to install floodlights for
the football field, at a cost of $1 to 2 million. This would constitute the single
largest gift ASIJ has ever received, and would represent the only permanent
structure on our campus donated and paid for by a single individual.
The problem is that Mr. Ryu is the CEO of Poongsan Corporation, a manufacturer of
cluster munitions. As CEO, Mr. Ryu is responsible for the decision to profit from
the production and sale of a weapon that is widely condemned by the international
community for humanitarian reasons. Cluster bombs are large packages of up to
two-thousand shells that disperse over a wide area the size of two or three football
fields. They are notorious for high failure rates, which means that a large
percentage of the bomblets (up to 30%) remain unexploded, contaminating the area and
eventually maiming and killing large numbers of noncombatants who happen upon them,
children in particular. Handicap International estimates that 98% of the casualties
of cluster bombs are suffered by civilians.
As a result, there is a major international campaign to halt the manufacture and
sale of cluster bombs, sponsored by many of the individuals and NGOs behind the
Nobel-prize-winning successful campaign to stop landmine production. These include
the UN, the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, the Vatican, the Federation of American
Scientists and many other organizations. To date, forty-six nations have committed
to ban cluster munitions that have unacceptable consequences for civilians, and the
government of Norway has specifically blacklisted Poongsan. Major banks and pension
funds have already excluded Poongsan from their holdings, and just two weeks ago the
second largest pension fund in Europe has decided to divest from Poongsan and other
cluster bomb producers.
With momentum building in the international campaign to ban cluster weapons, we feel
that it would be highly inappropriate for ASIJ to accept this high-profile gift from
a manufacturer of these immoral weapons. We feel that honoring Mr. Ryu and accepting
this gift would a blatant violation of the values of ASIJ, as expressed in the
school's mission to: "Develop compassionate, inquisitive learners prepared for
global responsibility." We feel that to be true its mission and honor its legacy,
ASIJ must show compassion by aligning itself with the victims of cluster bombs, and
demonstrate global responsibility by rejecting this offer.
Many in the school community have urged the school to decline this gift, but the
ASIJ Board of Directors has refused to respond to our concerns. They are proceeding
behind closed doors, indifferent to the broader ASIJ community.
Accepting this donation contradicts the mission of the school.
In no way does accepting money from a munitions manufacturer
help the school's mission, developing compassionate,
inquisitive learners prepared for global responsibility. As
the movement to ban cluster bombs gains speed, our acceptance
of this donation will only look worse and worse. It is likely
that an international resolution against cluster munitions
will come to pass in 2008.
Unfortunately, the Board has refused to respond to our
concerns. They have proceeded behind closed doors, indifferent
to the broader ASIJ community. The Board is finalizing their
decision this week | | |
| alright so i decided to post the picture cuz i just really gotta brag about it. heres the picture: 
the entire thing was originally rectangular pieces of wood with an exception of a very few things. that clock is a working clock. everything was made by us with no exception in what you see. like i said, the level of professionalism in this is amazing. we have to think about safety issues, and just getting past a million and one problems we inevitably run into. this thing took for fuckin ever to make. the final week was hectic as hell cuz we were way behind schedule and we all ended up with 20 or more hour days with very little sleep in between. i didnt go to any of my classes and screwed myself over a little bit cuz i didnt do any of my work that week too. we ended up getting 3rd place out of 4..... our fraternity prides itself on our exteriors, and this year we made the best exterior by far. i mean look at it. we built a fuckin house. haha. our interior let us down i guess... it was a heartbreaker but still i gotta say im pretty damn proud of it. i know how to use all these different tools and i know all these things about building shit now.. haha. thats kinda cool either way its finally fuckin done cuz i was stressin out like mad doin nothin but workin on this thing and school for the past few weeks. its back to only stressin about school work now... a couple weeks of class left then finals and hey im half way through college... take care everybody | | |
| alright so its time to procrastinate a little more. haha.. there's been a lotta things i gotta do here with work and this thing we call booth over here. it would be impossible to describe enough to give you a good picture of what kind of competition booth is, but just trust me when i say that it takes an immense amount of time and effort. maybe i'll try to put up a picture or some shit after its all done, but your jaw would drop if you saw the amount of professionalism that has to go into this. this shit is no joke over here. as i worked on labs and shit, ideas were poppin into my head about changes we should make to CA. it occured to me that CA teaches students to be number crunchers and essay writers. the opportunities in a community like CA and kobe to learn practical applications to build things or to understand what actually happens in the non-textbook world is nonexistant. case and point - how many times have you ever used a wrench, hammer, or any kind of tool for that matter? when have you ever taken a look under the hood of a car or built or fixed anything? i don't know if these matters parallel other fields like music and art, but i feel kind of behind everyone else when i have to do some kind of mechanical engineering project... if CA had some kind of workshop then i think a fair amount of people would be interested. it would have to be a class instead of a club, cuz clubs just don't work at CA. one memory comes to mind when a few of us wanted to use the amp in the band room but we weren't allowed to cuz we weren't in the band or some shit like that. you get my point? although i can see where vest was comin from, it still frustrates me that CA fosters a very specific type of student, and that i myself have kind of fallen into that hole.. it frustrates me so much that i kind of want to sit down with whoever the head master is now and talk about it. at the same time i know that the voice of a single young alumnus that he never met will do nothing, and i'm simply not willing to do anything more about it at this point... that frustrates me too.... so in the end i accomplished nothing with saying all that.. haha. theres a cold goin around this house. its true that dorms act as sespools for colds... one person gets a cold and it goes through everysingle person who lives here. hence i have it now... alright my rambling session is done cuz i gotta get back to work. there went 30min of my life... take care guys | | |
| whats up guys. got an exam in that calc class tomorow. so once again i find myself here at xanga procrastinating. call me a dork but i gotta admit i like venting shit here on xanga. i dont even really care if people read it or not. just the idea that its out there in the open is somehow reassuring... so we won our basketball game today which puts us in the IM semifinals.. not bad eh? haha.. i actually start on the team here and i fuckin love playin here.. and of course uday plays too. he was the best player on our team until this new young guy came in. cant really compare them though since udays a guard and the guys a center. apples and oranges... haha... but then im always scared of gettin injured again..... the IM officials can really get on my nerves sometimes.. i guess i cant expect much but damn shit gets frustrating when calls dont go your way. these IM sports are the only time i ever talk shit to people. hahaha. i love it.. today i took two charges within the span of 15seconds with an elbow right in the chin on one of them and they weren't called by the refs.. i became furious and just wanted to hit something so badly but there was nothing to hit... haha.. i love the feeling of shooting the basketball during the game. when you know its going in as soon as it leaves your fingers... just thinking about how it feels is enough to make me smile. with all the stress i keep complaining about, basketball is probably the best thing i have right now.. so my spring break was pretty relaxing.. went home to DC for a few days and just took some time off from the world for myself. thought about quite a few things... got to know my dad a little bit more.. gotta say i'm starting to question the whole capitalist way of life, namely life in america i guess.... not like i'm a rebel or a hater now or anything, but things i've been seeing, hearing, and reading just don't seem quite right.. for some reason i distinctly remember one of my friends talking about his experiences with hooking up with girls and he told me things started lookin way up when he finally decided to fuck his morals. i looked at him thinkin "are you fuckin serious?".. so he just up and decided to give up his morals.... how could you do that? really i have nothing left to say and now i'm just tryin to think of things... haha.. really dont want to work obviously... i really want to leave sayin somethin smart.. haha.... write down some kinda philosophical epiphany or whatever.. hmmm... nothing comes to mind... haha.... not really something you can force i guess... screw it i should go to work... take care everybody | | |
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