Re: Sigmund the Fraud?

heh :). GOD, Scottie, when you nail someone you ususally nail them.

Usually :).

Now, no matter how hostile I always was, I always admitted his influence
:). The beautiful thing about observations is that anyone can make them. .
.so while he provides some useful categories and observations (I'm reading
him specifically to see how specific future writers used him) I still think
his thought is primarily fairy tale and not science.

What's really interesting is that the copy of _Beyond the Pleasure
Principle_ that I'm reading has an introduction by a Freudophile who, with
no little exasperation, says Freud's detractors can be divided into two
camps -- Marxists (and others) who say he's too mystical, and religious
types who say he's too materialistic. The Freudophile then observes that
Freud's detractors never notice that they contradict one another.

As if doctrinaire Marxists and religious types were supposed to agree.

The guy never pauses for a second to think that maybe the contradiction is
in Freud himself ;).

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> '... sometimes I find his observations or categories useful ...'
>
> Well now, Jim, that sounds typically balanced & reasonable -
> if, perhaps, ever so slightly condescending. Yet I remember
> not so long ago you expressing rather more exasperated
> sentiments.
>
> I detect a certain incipient conflict.
>
> For goodness sake don't start weakening on us.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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