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The Ugly Psyche: Arendt and the Right to Opacity
Research in Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-07-22 , DOI: 10.1163/15691640-12341446
Anne O’Byrne 1
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Arendt was famously dismissive of the work of psychologists, claiming that they did nothing more than reveal the pervasive ugliness and monotony of the psyche. If we want to know who people are, she argued, we should observe what they do and say rather than delving into the turmoil of their inner lives; if we want to understand humanity, we would be better off reading Oedipus Rex than hearing about someone’s Oedipus complex. The rejection has a certain coherence in the context of her understanding of public life as the realm of appearance and opinion, but examining it through the specific question of ugliness complicates that understanding. While beauty invites us to contemplate the world and admire it, ugliness repels our attention and sows the seed of a worry that the world might not want to be known. Working with Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Life of the Mind: Thinking, the Kant lectures and a striking Denktagebuch entry in which she reacts with revulsion to Matisse’s Heads of Jeannette, I argue that Arendt’s response to the ugly psyche requires a re-examination of the sensus communis. If the psyche does not want to be known, and if not all points of view are open to imaginative occupation, the ideal and practice of enlarged mentality must reckon with a right to opacity.



中文翻译:

丑陋的心灵:阿伦特与不透明权

阿伦特(Arendt)著名地驳斥了心理学家的工作,声称他们所做的只是揭示心理学的普遍丑陋和单调。她认为,如果我们想知道人们是谁,我们应该观察他们的所作所为,而不是钻研他们内心的动荡。如果我们想了解人类,那么最好阅读《俄狄浦斯王朝》而不是听说某人的恋母情结。在她将公共生活理解为外表和见解领域的背景下,拒绝具有一定的连贯性,但是通过特定的丑陋问题对其进行考察会使这种理解变得复杂。美丽虽然邀请我们去思考和欣赏世界,但丑陋却排斥了我们的注意力,播下了一种担心,即人们可能不希望被世界所知道。在耶路撒冷艾希曼合作《心灵的生活:思考》,康德演讲和引人注目的Denktagebuch作品,其中她对马蒂斯的珍妮特产生了反感,我认为阿伦特对丑陋心理的反应需要重新审视普通民众。如果不想被人们知道,并且如果不是所有观点都可以从事有想象力的职业,那么扩大思想的理想和实践就必须考虑到不透明的权利。

更新日期:2020-07-22
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