Re: cognitive schnognitive


Subject: Re: cognitive schnognitive
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 08:37:30 GMT


    Honest to God, Cecilia, honest to God. I was truly
    grateful for Suzanne's explanation - & not at all dismissive
    of the way she applied the concept to Franny's plight.

    If I do have a problem with the phrase it's just another
    personal neurosis - like my distaste for acronyms. All trades
    have their jargons & mine probably worse than most:
    affective incongruity, diurnal variation, passive aggression ...
    Cripes, I could sit here all day. I use them myself - but
    only, I hope, when talking to the slower colleagues for
    whom glib categorisation has long ago replaced imagination
    & thought.
    
    'Just so long as he loves his mother...' is truer & says
    a great deal more than 'he has an Oedipal complex.'

    But I agree. I'm slow & old. And you at least, Cec, will
    remember the ruffled cuffs, the rheumy eye, the powdered
    wig bent over the jewelled cane. But dammit to hell, I STILL
    think there's nothing like plain baking.

    Scottie B.

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