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Melissa Acedera

“The determination of which behaviors or characteristics are deviant and which are normal is complex. We usually assume there’s a fair amount of agreement in a society about what and who is deviant. For instance, no one would challenge the notion that child abuse is bad and that child abusers ought to be punished. But the level of agreement within a given society over what specific acts constitute child abuse can vary tremendously. Spanking may be a perfectly acceptable method of discipline to one person but be considered a cruel form of abuse by another.”

- Newman, David M. Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief Edition. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2015. Print.Chapter 8: Constructing Difference: Social Deviance(via socio-logic)

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Thus whereas Freud sees neurosis as an illness that can be cured, Lacan sees neurosis as a structure that cannot be altered. The aim of psychoanalytic treatment is therefore not the eradication of the neurosis but the modification of the subject’s position vis-à-vis the neurosis…- Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (via sinthematica)

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“The one who teaches good to others but does not do it himself is like the lamp which lights the way, but burns itself ” - The Prophet ﷺ, Saheeh al-Jaami No. 5831 (via aboonoor)

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“When a man tries earnestly to liberate his intellect, his passions and desires secretly hope to benefit from it also” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (via whyallcaps)

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“If a white man wants to be an ally, ask him what does he think of John Brown. You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a white man who went to war against white people to help free slaves. He wasn’t nonviolent. White people call John Brown a nut. Go read history, go read what all of them say about John Brown. They’re trying to make it look like he was a nut, a fanatic. They made a movie on it - I saw a move on the screen one night. Why, I would be afraid to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him.

But they depict him in this image because he was willing to shed blood to free the slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom - in the sight of other whites, he’s nuts. As long as he wants to come up with some nonviolent action, they go for that. If he’s liberal, nonviolent liberal, love-everybody liberal. But when it comes time for making the same contribution for your and my freedom that was necessary for them to make for their own freedom they back out of the situation”. - Malcolm X, On Afro-American History (via publius-esquire)

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“Enlightenment is a man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another. Such self-immaturity is self caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but the lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! Is therefore the motto of enlightenment..” -Immanuel Kant, Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? (via pastizche)

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“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains”-James Baldwin(via observando)

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