Dylan’s talk is called, “Logos of Folly, Folly of Logos: The Psychological Difference of Missing the Point in ‘Being There’”
Misunderstanding often presupposes there to be an object of knowing and an imagining of having ascertained its meaning. There is surely something to get by ‘not getting it’, however, or in the failure to understand the joke other than the arrival of tragedy. By missing out on an understanding, knowledge that is in view of something sublated arrives. This presentation stumbles into necessary questions in such a scene: What is the point of knowledge for psychological life, why does the desire for it seem to frustrate ‘getting the point’—especially within human relationships—and who is the psychological benefactor inculcating these questions with expectations for further skullduggery? By reevaluating the Greek notion of logos as legein (known to Heidegger as “gathering”), or listening, this presentation discloses archetypal fools and clowns as the perennial stylers of metaphorical listening and, perhaps, the neglected necessity of errancy that is savior and saboteur to our mis/understandings. The film ‘Being There’ (1979) is discussed to demonstrate the aesthetic qualities of listening as procedures of Roberts Avens’ “new gnosis”—a coniunctio of Hillmanian and Heideggerian imaginings—through which knowledge is occasioned by splitting the (psychological) difference in soul’s presentation to reveal its absolute negativity, in Wolfgang Giegerich’s terms, or what is gathered in and by the film’s audience.
About Dylan
Dylan Andrew Young, M.A., is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor, and solivagant living between Santa Barbara and Santa Fe. He holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Bachelor of Arts in Audio Arts & Acoustics from Columbia College Chicago. In addition to making ecologically informed sound art, Dylan is the author of Out of the Blue: An Errant Exploration Into the Imaginational Listening of Aisthesis (2020) and a volunteer archival technician at OPUS Archives and Research Center.