valaki
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Some things don't quite add up for me here. I'll quote the relevant passages and then explain my problem.
In the Christian world “gluttony†is included among the seven “cardinal sins,†yet its usual
understanding as a gluttony for food only makes it appear somewhat less sinful than others. It
would not be included among the basic sinful dispositions, however, if the original meaning of
the term were not—as is the case with avarice and lust—something beyond the literal. If we
understand gluttony more broadly, in the sense of a passion for pleasure, we may say that this
definitely is a capital sin—inasmuch as it implies a deviation from an individual’s potential for
self-actualization; hedonism is binding upon the psyche and involves (through confusion) an
obstacle in the search for the summum bonum and a snare. We may say that a weakness for
pleasure constitutes a generalized susceptibility to temptation, and in this light we can
understand Chaucer’s statement in his “The Parson’s Tale†to the effect that “He that is addicted
to this sin of gluttony may withstand no other sin.â€
When I first heard Ichazo’s ideas of Protoanalysis, this was in Spanish, and he used the
word “charlatan†for the ennea-type VII individual (and “charlatanism†for the fixation). This
word also needs to be understood in more than a literal manner: that the glutton is one who
approaches the world through the strategy of words and “good reasonsâ€â€”one who
manipulates through the intellect.
Well at this point, I don't quite understand why such a physical thing as passion for pleasure would be related to the intellect of the "glutton".
I guess that's probably part of why I don't understand type 7.
Someone explain please?
Thanks for any help.
In the Christian world “gluttony†is included among the seven “cardinal sins,†yet its usual
understanding as a gluttony for food only makes it appear somewhat less sinful than others. It
would not be included among the basic sinful dispositions, however, if the original meaning of
the term were not—as is the case with avarice and lust—something beyond the literal. If we
understand gluttony more broadly, in the sense of a passion for pleasure, we may say that this
definitely is a capital sin—inasmuch as it implies a deviation from an individual’s potential for
self-actualization; hedonism is binding upon the psyche and involves (through confusion) an
obstacle in the search for the summum bonum and a snare. We may say that a weakness for
pleasure constitutes a generalized susceptibility to temptation, and in this light we can
understand Chaucer’s statement in his “The Parson’s Tale†to the effect that “He that is addicted
to this sin of gluttony may withstand no other sin.â€
When I first heard Ichazo’s ideas of Protoanalysis, this was in Spanish, and he used the
word “charlatan†for the ennea-type VII individual (and “charlatanism†for the fixation). This
word also needs to be understood in more than a literal manner: that the glutton is one who
approaches the world through the strategy of words and “good reasonsâ€â€”one who
manipulates through the intellect.
Well at this point, I don't quite understand why such a physical thing as passion for pleasure would be related to the intellect of the "glutton".
I guess that's probably part of why I don't understand type 7.
Someone explain please?
Thanks for any help.