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Sorry Cholister, I don't think I was making myself clear.
Self-deception and hiding things from oneself are, I'll concede, much the same thing, give or take. And, yes, you did use the word denial. But you seemed to be conflating it with self-deception. What I meant by denial was refusal to acknowledge something, not necessarily to disbelieve it. Now it's more than possible that that's not what denial means in a psychoanalytical sense, and this is the sense you were employing. Xoc's comment sneaks me towards the suspicion that this is the case. But I didn't mean to invoke Freud, and my position remains that gay-bashing homosexuals are more likely behaving like this as a way of denying or hiding their sexuality from others, not from themselves - whatever that might mean.
As for Eminem, I accept that not all homophobes are straight, but doubt that homophobia is a reliable indicator of closet or latent homosexuality, whatever the intuitive appeal of a 'Slim Shady doth protest too much' argument. I might be at odds with Freud here, but he fancied his mum and suspected his dad was out to castrate him, so I'm not sure trust his judgement.
But, I still don't know what it means to be unconscious of, in this example, an attraction to something. Cholister, how would you respond to the suggestion that really you want to fuck Eminem, you're just unaware that you do?
This whole, largely accepted it seems, idea of hiding things from oneself (as opposed to ignoring them) raises a lot of questions which I'm beginning to feel a bit lonely in being puzzelled about. For a start it suggests there is someone. in. my. head. concealing. things. from. me. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.
When posing the original question I imagined a situation where one could 'jump into' the mind of another and access it in the same way that the owner would. So I didn't really think about the implications of finding out more about myself. But yeah, I envisioned being able to chose whose mind you wanted to look into and then what information you wanted to access. |
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