heptagrammaton’s Reviews > Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality > Status Update

"The key point about 'psychological language'is that it formalizes the way in which conscious humans have evolved to carve up the firm realities of the world of inner personal awareness and its imperfect social exchange. . . . What we call 'scientific' observation and thought are parasitic on the capacity to share subjective experiences. . . ."

Broke's ideas about development during childhood rested ... on a set of beliefs about racial brain differences ... Broca advanced a new scientific view by separating it from an older set of political belief systems to which it had been linked, and attaching it to a new constellation. His one area of overlap [...] provided continuity and acceptability . . .

(Ch. 5, fn. 14)

note: in discussing E. Grosz's view of the construction of body and mind (pp.24-25) Fausto-Sterling criticizes the use of the terminology of the "drive" as "ill-defined" (fn. 112, p.270.) I suspect that this may be a bit of misapprehension stemming from unfamiliarity(?) the fickle complex philosophical discourses this seems to pull on (and possibly, in part, of how shoddily Deleuze and Guattari have been translated?)