Doug,
The objection to psychonalysis has little to do with bourgeois subjectivist influences weakening the movement and everything to do with the same problem that afflicted Cartesian physics or behaviorism or phrenology: they were/are all simply wrong. All of these could/did/perhaps still can lead to good results (in knowledge production/political activism), but such results do not remedy their intellectual deficiencies just as the political failures of their followers is not the basis for rejecting them.
The Unconscious is/was/will always be a fetish.
Carrol
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >The editorial line of that
> >publication was to the left of the CP and vigorously anti-Freudian.
>
> Whew. Can't have those bourgeois subjectivist influences weakening
> the workers movement!
>
> Doug