Note 20

I think a developing understanding of the meaning of the term mental health is the starting point of selfconstruction.

What is the concept of mental health in society?

Why are some forms of mental health encouraged, promoted over others, and what are the levers of its promotion?

What opportunities do immense interpretive/cognitive wealth of society bring?

Real? There is no Real. The concepts that create arbitrary order. But also mental health.

What reflexivity? How does the belief in the true create illusions?

I believe in the Real, and the real has existence. But the existence of the Real has no extension beyond my existence.

Theres the nub - the narrative Real as transcendent, and the "I think, therefore I am" point as the precondition, the existence of the concept as the prerequisite for the thinking state of my existence.

But my existence is itself a meta-real.

Real is used in contradistinction to what is, in the use of concepts. What is, is , but isness is structured; always existing in ordered relations to other possibilities.

Kant: What is, must. But does the mustness constitute isness? Is Being constituted by a form of all possible "mustness", Being as necessity referring to itself?

Is all language the possibility of its necessity?

But that means that its necessity is redefined by their individual Being. Language contains the collective experience of the past in dealing with conditions shared among previous peoples.

(Unoriginal language is therefore the failure to fully interpret the significance of the present moment, but the nature of the associative set...)

Of course, individual psychologies use language differently to interpret different states, and the collective state of a group or crowd is the necessary condition of the applicability of language...It is the modality of translation of concept into existence that is shared yet subjective that constitutes a group.

What are the constituents of this modality of interpretation?

Well, first, it is precisely the ability of the group leader to appreciate the collective modality of interpretation and to adopt the responsibility of developing its substantive content.

"This is absurd. How could you call this responsibility?"

What is the meaning of a word?

It is its difference from its similarities, and the word...it does not need family resemblance, its the resemblance of collective experiences that form complexes of associations which are tied to the negotiative pillars of taboo, excitement, reality-function, to inform the purpose of conversation.

Feeling-toned complexes and their significations, when tied to underlying narratives and meanings - yes, there are master narratives, narratives of the order of mental health - ...

Know these narratives, subvert the tragedy inherent in them by re-expressing them in perverted form, ie. reflect how much we actually desire them, make fun of it in any way you can, preferably by conjuring circumstances that turn its aspects against itself, through the incongruity of the simultaneous application of two tragic values - this is the work of the comedian.

So wherefore the specific horror of a failed joke, which sounds like a bad lie, all-too-earnestly told? Are all jokes clownish masquerade of the truth-complex? The belief in the joke is the essential condition of its success. So a joke obviously has a shadow in a tragic truth.

"Laughter is freedom from order - it shows us how much we secretly want to be mad."