political correctness 4 - dremas

drema is word from finnegan's wake by james joyce. joyce attempted to portray a universal drema in finnegan's wake. as nabokov observed, it's an utter failure. there is nothing universal about the human race, not even our dreams, not even our language. However, that does not mean that our educational system should be completely relative. In fact, complete relativity is a system of imperialism in so much as knowledge precedes the act.

freud's dream theory focuses first on symbols. we still see the world in terms of symbols. A cigar represents a penis. The seven plenty cows represent fertility. Etc. Freud tended to see symbols as either driven by Eros (partly sexual) or Thanatos (partly deathual), energies with have formulated into psychic entities through evolutionary processes. Symbols are the cross, the church, etc. Symbols are abundant for religious people because religious people see life as a veil, a creation of God the meaning of which is transcendent. Freud saw religion as a sexual neurosis. I will return to this later, but I don't think that Freud was negating religion, just standarized religion.