New essay....in process....January 14th/2012....
A distinction between three types of choices can be made:
1. An 'Aristotlean Either/Or Classification Choice';
Eg. Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
2. A 'Kierkegaardian Either/Or Existential Choice';
Eg. Should I get married, or should I not?
3. A 'Hegelian Dialectic-Integrative Choice';
Eg. The Democrats and Republicans compromising on some legislative bill in order to get it passed into law....
A Hegelian choice involves synthesizing two or more seemingly opposing choices -- a 'compromise-solution' of sorts but ideally with the 'best of both worlds integrated into one 'dialectically interactive but cohesive unit or paradigm'....
Is integrating pre-1897 'Traumacy-Seduction Theory with post 1896 'Fantasy-Impulse Theory' going to give us a superior form of Psychoanalysis than either 'Pre-Classical' Psychoanalysis or 'Classical' Psychoanalysis' taken separately? That is the dialectically posed question here....
