Re: deprogramming language
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:46:24 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/25/99 6:20:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sgabriel@willamette.edu writes:
<< If you want to give Freud a pat on the back, you should
take Sean's words directly as well.
S.
>>
Your post was very interesting and instructive (and I think you made some
good points), but from beginning to end I, for one, have no desire whatsoever
to give Freud anything other than some due credit for influencing history,
and a large kick in the ass.
Freud wasn't properly and "outsider" in the sense you're describing, I think
studies of the brain in his day were even more backward than Freudian
psychoanalysis...
but otherwise, thanks again for the post. There are people in reading
theory, at least, that examine the brain, and even IA Richards in Principles
of Literary Criticism waaay back when tied a good deal of his subject to
studies of the brain.
Umberto Eco's latest book on literary theory -- Kant and the Platypus -- says
that semiology has gone in so many different directions nowadays (and I think
in part in the direction you mentioned), that he can't even keep up with it.
So you're not alone in your thoughts...
Jim