You are listening to the Parsley Examined Life, episode 388, part two, talking about culture and

Hegel's phenomenology of spirit. We had gotten up to section 490. So we are into talking about actuality.

We had talked about how you might think you're such a special, unique individual, but actually, at least at this stage, you're only, your individuality is only defined by your kind, right?

Which is something that is a creation of culture. You are a doctor.

You are a peasant, whatever it is that you are for it to have content. The content has to come

from culture. Yeah, it's a really interesting subject in psychology as well. So for instance,

I'm just going to do this little aside here for people

interested in psychoanalysis, but Winnicott, the famous right for transitional object and all that

stuff has a lot to say about adolescence where people are in the position of trying to assert

their individuality, right? They're trying to leave the realm of the family, right? The realm of the divine law,

so to speak. And how do they do it? How do you become a particular? How do you become an individual?

Well, you just identify with new groups, right? You start wearing a leather jacket like millions of other

people. Or you become a mod or a, you know, or this or that. A mod or a rocker? Those are the, those are the current. A rocker or a mod or a, you know, or a this or that.

A mod or a rocker?

Those are the, those are the current.

A rocker or a mod.

Yeah, if you're thinking about quadrophenia.

Great.

But anyway, yeah.

So it's this weird thing where they are assertions of individuality and our assertions

of individual power really depend on identification with others and identification

with cultural values or with right subcultures or values of peer groups or you know maybe i think

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