Herbert Brün Society

Contains a “Advanced Pages” of report on “Seminar on Interpersonal Relational Networks” Cuernavaca, July, 1971 – CIDOC – by Rodney Clough 9/20/71

Two things are striking about this text.

One: on page 17 – 19 the discussants get into the question of when to use the word “necessity” and at some point Brün asks (roughly) when is “necessity” and someone labelled “A” responds “necessity is something which you can not survive without.” Brün responds “Yes, that’s unbeatable.”

The reason this is interesting is because I had once heard that Cuernavaca was where Brün came to the distinction between need and necessity.

Two is the comment from Ivan Illich on page 23 in which Illich describes other meetings, with Paolo Freire, with Eric Fromm, in which a set of statements or words generated a discussion — Illich describes a “shared puzzlement” generated by all those including the group present, but goes on to say that the one initiated by Herbert Brün was stronger than the others.