Is the inability to (fill in the blank) the same as the fear of this inability?
I see the latter as depending (of course) on the existence of the inability to (fill in the blank). However, I do not see the inability to (fill in the blank) as requiring the fear of it to exist.
What do you think?
( I didn’t know where to place this post so feel free to move it to its apppropriate location…perhaps we should have a semiotics forum?)
I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. Well, I do, but I’m refusing to answer because of the way you phrased the question.
I’ve thought about a semiotics forum - I don’t think that there’s enough people interested in semiotics here to justify a whole forum devoted to it. In fact, there aren’t enough people on the internet as a whole who are interested in semiotics to warrant a whole forum devoted to it. I’ve looked and struggled to find anything except a few short-run messageboards (including my own, which basically consisted of a blog on poststructuralism).
Okay…my insertation for the “fill in the blank” is the inability to connect deeply with others.
Does this help? Or was it my use of “the same” in the question that is causing you not to answer?