Freud & Psychoanalysis was Re: The death...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Ken wrote:
>ps. i'm tempted to point out that the critque of psychoanalysis here seems to
>be rooted in some sort of compulsive obsessive anxiety or uncertainty of ones
>own premises, but to do so would be pointless, so i won't.

The above is called praeteritio (= paraleipsis): pretended omission for
rhetorical effect.  An excellent rhetorical figure to use if one wants to
avoid responsibility for one's statement, especially for a slanderous one.

Yoshie