> Political Correctness has a similar idea that by adjusting the terminology we use, we can purge biases and historical implications and speak in a purer way.
You either misunderstand political correctness or are trying to make it sound more nefarious than it is. It is nothing more than an effort, sometimes overdone and misguided, to not say things that make minorities feel bad. It’s nothing more than an attempt to broaden what’s considered good manners.
If anyone serious thinks political correctness is going to end racism, I certainly haven’t seen it.
> Psychoanalysis has its own idea of repression - where a person struggles to BLOCK our associations between ideas, memories, and words in order to try to stop one thought from being contaminated by another, intolerable thought.
It’s been a while since I took Psych 101, but my memory is that, according to Freud, repression is subconscious. There’s no struggle possible because there is no intent. It’s also about memories and emotions, so if it WAS an intentional act, it’s not an attempt to control language. It wouldn’t be about trying to not think of the word cat, but trying to not think about that time when your cat died.
You either misunderstand political correctness or are trying to make it sound more nefarious than it is. It is nothing more than an effort, sometimes overdone and misguided, to not say things that make minorities feel bad. It’s nothing more than an attempt to broaden what’s considered good manners.
If anyone serious thinks political correctness is going to end racism, I certainly haven’t seen it.
> Psychoanalysis has its own idea of repression - where a person struggles to BLOCK our associations between ideas, memories, and words in order to try to stop one thought from being contaminated by another, intolerable thought.
It’s been a while since I took Psych 101, but my memory is that, according to Freud, repression is subconscious. There’s no struggle possible because there is no intent. It’s also about memories and emotions, so if it WAS an intentional act, it’s not an attempt to control language. It wouldn’t be about trying to not think of the word cat, but trying to not think about that time when your cat died.