(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
Thanks to Eivind Tjønneland who in the previous issue of Ny Tid responded to my article (6/2017). I am told that what he wrote in his essay (4/2017) does not concern me who was born in 1949, because the "starting point" for his attack on us hypersensitive was some students abroad born in the 90s.
But Tjønneland kicks in all directions. He sees, for example, crocodile tears when he "watches Knausgård or his equal laugh on television". Without Tjøneland, his thinking can quickly feed offenders worldwide.
Yes, there may be too much sensitivity; but that is a microscopic problem when we live in a world where insensitivity reigns, where offenses are ignored and trivialized, where sufferers are told that the offenses they have fallen ill from are only due to their hypersensitivity.
As Anna Luise Kirkengen shows in her book How Abused Children Become Sick Adults: Many sufferers have become even sicker by new offenses by doctors who do not know that mental states are always associated with what Siri Hustvedt has called "organic reality".
For centuries, the feelings of the hypersensitive, often associated with the woman, have been turned down by learned men without the knowledge of the role and meaning of the emotions – but who have believed that they know the difference between sensitivity and emotion.
Then Tjøneland also does not know the difference between thinking embodied and disembodied – otherwise he would have failed to say that "not all embodied thinking is as good". The thing is, no one manages to think embodied. No one has learned to think embodied, only disembodied. It's in our body cells.
If one day we really benefit from thinking embodied, we must stop vandalizing our emotions, stop denying and displacing the wisdom of emotions – the exquisite and patient job evolution has done for us. Instead, we must stimulate and cultivate the wisdom of emotions.
And just because all thinking is emotionally engaged and influenced, our thinking is also influenced by our vandalized feelings. And the absence of emotions very often only hurts.
