To me that means that in this case "meta" is a quantifier, at best, and really doesn't mean anything, at worst.īut, for my money, I like TNSI's Freudian findings. So linguistically it mean something like, beyond a distorted sense of reality, or perhaps, "psychosis about psychosis," which I suppose would be a distorted sense of one's distorted sense of reality. The medical definition of psychosis: "a symptom or feature of mental illness typically characterized by radical changes in personality, impaired functioning, and a distorted or nonexistent sense of objective reality." cognition about cognition), "meta-emotion" (i.e. The modern sense of "an X about X" has given rise to concepts like "meta-cognition" (i.e. Also, metamemory in psychology means an individual's knowledge about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it.
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He says the process of attaining such harmony, so that instinct no longer independently seeks satisfaction from ego, is essentially indescribable, and he quotes Goethe's Faust - "So muss denn doch die Hexe dran!" (We must call the witch to our help after all!")Ī definition for meta as prefix I found: "Meta is a common English prefix meaning "beyond" which often carries a sense of self-reference."Īnd this is from the "Meta" wikipedia entry but the citations are lacking, nonetheless: "In epistemology, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). In a much later work, Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Freud also talks about 'Witch metapsychology', in terms of taming instincts into harmony with the ego. One could venture to explain in this way the myths of paradise and the fall of man, of God, of good and evil, of immortality, and so on, and to transform metaphysics into metapsychology." "the construction of a supernatural reality.is destined to be changed back once more by science into the psychology of the unconscious. It's worth quoting the book at length here. So the killer is creating a tapestry in his killings to project his own inner self onto the reality of the outer world.
In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud talks about religion and myth and says "the mythological view of the world.is nothing but psychology projected into the external world." Which tallies with Metzinger's idea that the self doesn't exist as an actual thing in the world it is a phenomenal manifestation of the consciousness's experience. Given a lot of what Cohle has said is related to Metzinger's theory on the illusion of self (I'm thinking of his conversation in the 2012 wraparound narrative when he talks to Gilbough and Papania about the self being nothing more than a dream you have in a locked room), I imagine it is a reference to Freudian metapsychology, rather than the idea of transmigration of the soul.
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