Extispicy: Doomed Patterns of Destiny

February 07, 2005

Doomed Patterns of Destiny

Just in time for an oedipal/electral valentine's, this book review from The Boston Globe entitled What's infantile sexuality got to do with it? takes a look at a book called Love's Confusions by C.D.C Reeve.

The book appears to be a new exploration of the old familiar idea that we set our patterns for adult romance in infancy and then just get to repeat that same crappy pattern. Over and over.

From the review:

''Love is whatever develops from, and somewhat recapitulates, a child's relationship with his mother." That sounds reductive, but it's not. Infants think as well as feel; and infantile thinking underlies adult thinking, just as infantile sexuality underlies adult sexuality. Somehow -- we don't yet know how, and Reeve's Freudian account, though plausible, is not fully convincing -- an infant forms images, first of itself and then of the outside world. These images are the characters (''inner-baby," ''inner-Mommy") in a drama that takes place in the infant imagination. The plot elements in this drama are the infant's needs and the mother's help and approval. As the plot thickens -- with the mother's occasional disapproval, absence, even neglect, the infant's answering hatred, and eventually the father's competing, threatening presence, as well as new infantile needs (for bodily control, not merely food) -- new characters are added (''bad inner-baby," ''bad inner-Mommy," ''inner-Daddy," etc.), along with new plot twists. The infant's dramaturgy is called ''fantasy"; enumerating its techniques is one main function of psychoanalytic theory.
''We are actors," Reeve writes, ''playing roles for actors playing roles for us." The scripts are continually revised, of course, but elements of the primal drama, the original script, keep reappearing.

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Mmm-hmm. Isn't it cheery to realize you were already broken and screwed up before you even learned to walk? And that horrible 3 months you had with so-and-so apparently was destiny, after all. Doomed internal primal drama destiny, true, but if you subscribe to this school of thought, that's what you get. All you get.

Brings to mind an Oscar Wilde line: "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

{curtain}

Posted by m bat on February 7, 2005 08:16 PM
categories: arts + culture

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