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Operation Northwoods

by Katja Institute

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You want to distinguish very clearly between two things: between the actual medical theories and technique of the psychoanalysts, and the general philosophical view of the world which Freud and some others have gone on to add to this. The second thing – the philosophy of Freud – is in direct contradiction to Christianity: and also in direct contradiction to the other great psychologist, Jung. And furthermore, when Freud is talking about how to cure neurotics he is speaking as a specialist on his own subject, but when he goes on to talk general philosophy he is speaking as an amateur. It is therefore quite sensible to attend to him with respect in the one case and not in the other – and that is what I do. I am all the readier to do it because I have found that when he is talking off his own subject and on a subject I do know something about (namely, languages) he is very ignorant. But psychoanalysis itself, apart from all the philosophical additions that Freud and others have made to it, is not in the least contradictory to Christianity. Its technique overlaps with Christian morality at some points and it would not be a bad thing if every parson knew something about it: but it does not run the same course all the way, for the two techniques are doing rather different things.

When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice. Now this raw material may be of two kinds. Either it may be what we would call normal: it may consist of the sort of feelings that are common to all men. Or else it may consist of quite unnatural feelings due to things that have gone wrong in his subconscious.... Now what psychoanalysis undertakes to do is to remove the abnormal feelings, that is, to give the man better raw material for his acts of choice: morality is concerned with the acts of choice themselves.

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released July 27, 2017

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Vital Weekly 1094 -

So far the releases by Katja Institute came as a CDR with no cover, no print and virtually no information, and so to have four in a DVD case but with some cover, including twenty-four titles (six pieces per disc) is quite a step up I think. It says 'Ka Pahana 7' on the cover but upon looking at their Bandcamp page the title might also be 'Operation Northwoods'. They are listed as 'Memorandum 1', 'Memorandum 2' etc. and as tags we find ‘Alex Jones, Eddie Bravo, Electronic, Reflected Sound and California’, which may or may not be an indication towards band members and approach to sound. Like before the band operates within the genre of drone music with each track flowing neatly into the next. I still have no clue as to how this music is made but surely with an extensive amount of computer processing and/or sound effects cobbled together to cause some internal feedback, which is then stuck into the endless loop of delay pedals. Sometimes there is some sort of digital distortion, resulting in some clicks. The fourth disc opens with 'percussion' bits through a wall of reverb, but over the course of the other pieces on this disc the sound slowly dies out and a machine hum stays behind. The machine hum that has been part of the four discs all around. The music of Katja Institute is drone and dark, atmospheric and minimal. Sometimes, perhaps, a bit too minimal for my taste, I'd say. It seems as if the sound gets stuck in the machine and we don't know when it is going to be released. Four hours of music is quite a sit through as you can imagine, but I found it best to enjoy this at a somewhat lower volume and engaged myself in different activities, which included falling asleep for a short while. That I guess all belongs the nature of true ambient music and as such Katja Institute succeeds wonderfully well. Just below the surface, upon closer inspection, there are perhaps a few things that could be improved. (FdW)

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