[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by jim barlow

Nice to hear from you Michael, but why do I always get the difficult ones?
Why can't I do transference? Or anxiety too would be a breeze. Even certainty would be a piece of cake.

But identity structures? The subject (me) object (not me) and the connecting "relationship"?

With Descartes' departure the subject tends to include the object. Here is Heidegger's favorite example: the hammer. This object may look like a coke bottle to the "Gods are crazy" crowd. The true meaning of hammer is in up and down, lower arm attached, focused in the brain, the nail, the wall and everything participating in the exercise. This is the "identity" that makes sense. There is no "me" and a piece of wood stuck through a hole in an iron wedge making as much sense. "I" am scattered among the gestalt of the "world" - permitting a generalization.

Good to hear from you again Jim,Where have you gone?

regards michael