Do you think that improving competence is an inducement for one to engage in a project that is essentially disappointing?

Please respond to 2 of the following 4 questions/topics. Each response is worth 30 points; don’t write more than 600 words for each response.
• Answer the question/respond to the topic clearly
• Use quotes from readings, not paraphrases.
• Identify quotes to pages, ie (Einstein, 1930: p721)
• Use about 3 quotes per typed page
• Engage with the topics and the literature i have asked you to use; don’t just quote it and move on
• Do not use sources apart from the ones asked you to use
1.
Left hemisphere-Right hemisphere. On p220 in Mcgilchrist, there’s a discussion of where in the brain consciousness occurs and where self-consciousness takes place. What’s the significance of this difference?

Source: Iain McGilchrist, The Master and his Emissary. Excerpts from Chapters 6, 11 & 12

2.
Improving competence (pp22-24 in Beebe and Beebe) refers to a set of skills one can develop to get better at communicating. In contrast, Berlant writes that improving competence “induces a circuit of repair for a broken relation to the world.” (Berlant, Ch 1 p7, from a discussion of the analyst Melanie Klein). They further write that this effort increasingly puts one into a pattern of optimism at the possibility of repair, and disappointment at seeing its fundamental impossibility. (ibid) So, it’s not just the reality of repair-disappointment that’s the issue here, but it is the push towards engaging with the project of repair and disappointment. Do you think that improving competence is an inducement for one to engage in a project that is essentially disappointing?

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