w.

What struck me most in your paper, said the nerd, is the easiness with which you seem to are doing away with the entire notion of autonomy, how do they call your business, is it Wir-alle-Werbung?

v.

A draft:

"In Vindication of 'Satan's Methodology, or: How to Deal withe the Notion of the Real in Psychology"

When Gershom Scholem read Hermann Cohen, he got very angry. He was sure that

Cohen’s move to found the humanities on normativity alone was either a whim or

the methodology of Satan. To simply admit that nothing is more real than our

yearning for reality, seemed unbearable to him. And certainly the vast majority of

scholars, philosophers and psychoanalysts and psychologists, would rather follow

Scholem’s exclamation than dive deeper into Cohen’s idea. To bother too much

about the reality of the real, is either being described as the symptom of a serious

mental illness or a theorem in the very complex building of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

But what if the ethically founded epoché concerning our knowledge about the reality

of the psychic movements of the other is not a loss in reality but rather a gain? What

if abstaining from an ontology of the mind is indeed a more secure and rational way

of dealing with the intersubjectivity of psychic events than any ontology of the mind

could ppossibly be?

It is these questions that make me want to vindicate Cohen’s revolutionary

approach as a very promising way of coping with the conceptional limits to anything

the brain can achieve by reflexion on itself and the brains of his fellowmen. Classical

Kantianism seemed to reduce the faculties which could be conquered by sound

reasoning to an almost unbearable degree in the eyes of Kant’s believing

contemporaries. Yet, in the end, it opened a wide space for new types of

knowledge. Couldn’t it be that Cohen’s Neo-Kantianism, that seems so much to

humiliate and restrict the spheres of knowledge about ourselves, will in the end

widen the space in which knowledge concerning our minds can move?

u.

Writing is rioting, said the nerd, and hoped they would read it in Moskwa.

t.

Naivety is hard work and a warm gun, said the nerd.

s.

Sustainability, sustainability, training, training, teaching, teaching, babbled the nerd, when I look at how you waste your time with showing off and on and up, if I see how you kill your time in your offices, I am sure, you are mainly running a business called "sustainable creation of hatred" - and, she added, I am saying that with regret, 'cause, in a way, I like you.

r.

I cannot make sense of that story, said the woman and dropped the paper with a frown; the nerd said, neither can I, but supposed you were strong - and someone fragile, whom you used to like or even admire until this very moment, would attack you, what do you think, would you make use of your strength?

q.

I was just thinking that I was the centre of the universe, said the nerd, but thank God you came to teach me how to limit my self-image, and grinned. We only tried to teach you to love and focus on really important matters, like humility and so on, said … Yes this was necessary, said the nerd, good bye then, now teach another rotton creature, they're all so desparately in need of it, believe me.