DOUBLE READS
DOUBLE READS … And Carl Jung’s Union of Opposites.
Yahoo News
Item 1. “IRAQ POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE TO SEEK PM”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
AP BAGHDAD, Iraq - Key political groups agreed Wednesday to mount a campaign to deny Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari another term in a bid to jump-start stalled talks on a new national unity government, as at least 47 people died in bombings…During a meeting Wednesday, leaders of three parties, including Sunnis, Kurds and the secularists of ex-Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, agreed to ask the Shiite alliance to withdraw al-Jaafari's nomination and put forward another candidate.
Comment: The second read, including the context, shows that the lead is a bob-tailed reversal. The “good” text it projects is “IRAQ POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE…:”; the de facto “bad” news conveyed (on the token side, where you have to dig to get it) is: “US brokers deal to overturn the Shiite victory at the polls.” Allawi never was “Prime Minister” of Iraq, only of the U.S.- installed provisional government. The public is deceptively reassured by superficial reading; the situation has been made worse by what it alludes to but doesn’t say.
ITEM 2 “SENATE OK’S LIMITING PATRIOT ACT POWERS”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_go_co/patriot_act
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 48 minutes ago (8:48 PM 3.1.03)
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday cleared the path for renewing the USA Patriot Act, swatting aside objections while adding new protections for people targeted by government investigations.
***/ Is that “good”? – Certainly. It manages to both threaten AND protect citizens at the same time. But since it protects more than it threatens --from terrorists AND government -- it’s “OK”. If the SENATE OK’S it, that’s enough for Laurie. Everything balances out, you see.
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Psychosemiotic Discussion
Formal analysis
These items illustrate a particular way of using signs in communication that can be pictured by doubling “S”, as in “SS”, then flipping over the left-hand “S” and conjoining the opposite facing double half-circles back-to-back. (Can’t be shown in this format.) The doubling represents splitting what is communicated by text and token. Flipping the one on the left represents reversing the attitudinal content of the token. Conjoined back-to-back, the opposite facing double half-circles represents a sign read in two ways, the second reversing the expected (“squared’) affect-values the first projects.
To have a formal analysis of this type of sign-use (abv. S*) is unique and significant. It allows a very complex event to be grasped as an intra-psychic dynamic structure, which repeats. The structure of the intra-psychic dynamic is in transitions between polar opposites, positive (sought, ingested, retained) and negative (avoided, rejected, expelled), in the filling of tokenspace templates. Like patterns of fireworks exploding in the night skies on Halloween, each bursting brilliancy bursting again, until a discernible “idea”, “thought”, “scene”, or gesture is completed in the event. As soon as this happens, tokenspace reverts to a tabula rosa and consciousness to its default position. The energy burned in this ulta-micro neuro-chemical process presumably has a definite magnitude, represented by the ‘v” in the definition of a content of consciousness ( “S*(Ql, v) =df. content of consciousness under S* with given quality, intensity). However, since the only manifestation of neuro physical energy it is possible to know is that sufficient to have passed over into consciousness through quality, quantitative description of these mental events is categorically inappropriate. Qualitative complexes, ordered in templates of sign-use tokens, are a higher-level emergent metaphysical unit, beyond arithmeticizing. (There is no “half” of a clear and distinct idea, as Descartes observed; the mental is non-extended.)
Jung's Psychodynamic model
It is altogether startling that dramatic pictures of this psychological situation of union of opposites exist on display in Carl Jung’s Mysterium Conjunctionis, “The two unipeds”, two Siamese conjoined king’s heads with only two feet extending below their cloak, pointing in different directions. The same motif occurs in The “Revelation of the Hidden”,”The Worldly and Spiritual Power”, and “The Royal Pair”, with contiguous left-right arms, “Adam” with one foot showing.” These produce a striking, incongruous effect of the impossibly real, but also of the really fantastical. Linking the pairs is the hidden, secret psychological unity of diametrical opposites that is Jung’s metaphysical trademark. One side of a process carried to its extreme reverts into its opposite; it has been pushing against “the other side of itself,” so it goes over to what it opposed. “Why do you kick against the pricks?” the voice from heavens asked Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. He was converted on the spot, and became the author of basic New Testament writings that defined Christianity.
Yahoo News
Item 1. “IRAQ POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE TO SEEK PM”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
AP BAGHDAD, Iraq - Key political groups agreed Wednesday to mount a campaign to deny Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari another term in a bid to jump-start stalled talks on a new national unity government, as at least 47 people died in bombings…During a meeting Wednesday, leaders of three parties, including Sunnis, Kurds and the secularists of ex-Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, agreed to ask the Shiite alliance to withdraw al-Jaafari's nomination and put forward another candidate.
Comment: The second read, including the context, shows that the lead is a bob-tailed reversal. The “good” text it projects is “IRAQ POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE…:”; the de facto “bad” news conveyed (on the token side, where you have to dig to get it) is: “US brokers deal to overturn the Shiite victory at the polls.” Allawi never was “Prime Minister” of Iraq, only of the U.S.- installed provisional government. The public is deceptively reassured by superficial reading; the situation has been made worse by what it alludes to but doesn’t say.
ITEM 2 “SENATE OK’S LIMITING PATRIOT ACT POWERS”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_go_co/patriot_act
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 48 minutes ago (8:48 PM 3.1.03)
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday cleared the path for renewing the USA Patriot Act, swatting aside objections while adding new protections for people targeted by government investigations.
***/ Is that “good”? – Certainly. It manages to both threaten AND protect citizens at the same time. But since it protects more than it threatens --from terrorists AND government -- it’s “OK”. If the SENATE OK’S it, that’s enough for Laurie. Everything balances out, you see.
****/
Psychosemiotic Discussion
Formal analysis
These items illustrate a particular way of using signs in communication that can be pictured by doubling “S”, as in “SS”, then flipping over the left-hand “S” and conjoining the opposite facing double half-circles back-to-back. (Can’t be shown in this format.) The doubling represents splitting what is communicated by text and token. Flipping the one on the left represents reversing the attitudinal content of the token. Conjoined back-to-back, the opposite facing double half-circles represents a sign read in two ways, the second reversing the expected (“squared’) affect-values the first projects.
To have a formal analysis of this type of sign-use (abv. S*) is unique and significant. It allows a very complex event to be grasped as an intra-psychic dynamic structure, which repeats. The structure of the intra-psychic dynamic is in transitions between polar opposites, positive (sought, ingested, retained) and negative (avoided, rejected, expelled), in the filling of tokenspace templates. Like patterns of fireworks exploding in the night skies on Halloween, each bursting brilliancy bursting again, until a discernible “idea”, “thought”, “scene”, or gesture is completed in the event. As soon as this happens, tokenspace reverts to a tabula rosa and consciousness to its default position. The energy burned in this ulta-micro neuro-chemical process presumably has a definite magnitude, represented by the ‘v” in the definition of a content of consciousness ( “S*(Ql, v) =df. content of consciousness under S* with given quality, intensity). However, since the only manifestation of neuro physical energy it is possible to know is that sufficient to have passed over into consciousness through quality, quantitative description of these mental events is categorically inappropriate. Qualitative complexes, ordered in templates of sign-use tokens, are a higher-level emergent metaphysical unit, beyond arithmeticizing. (There is no “half” of a clear and distinct idea, as Descartes observed; the mental is non-extended.)
Jung's Psychodynamic model
It is altogether startling that dramatic pictures of this psychological situation of union of opposites exist on display in Carl Jung’s Mysterium Conjunctionis, “The two unipeds”, two Siamese conjoined king’s heads with only two feet extending below their cloak, pointing in different directions. The same motif occurs in The “Revelation of the Hidden”,”The Worldly and Spiritual Power”, and “The Royal Pair”, with contiguous left-right arms, “Adam” with one foot showing.” These produce a striking, incongruous effect of the impossibly real, but also of the really fantastical. Linking the pairs is the hidden, secret psychological unity of diametrical opposites that is Jung’s metaphysical trademark. One side of a process carried to its extreme reverts into its opposite; it has been pushing against “the other side of itself,” so it goes over to what it opposed. “Why do you kick against the pricks?” the voice from heavens asked Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. He was converted on the spot, and became the author of basic New Testament writings that defined Christianity.
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