'Psychological' -- from Moll Flanders to Clarissa

[t byfield]

> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:00:01 -0400
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> Subject: Re: 'Psychological' -- from Moll Flanders to Clarissa
> 
> >>To paraphrase Pfister, Freud doesn't, for instance, 'explain' psychological
> >>novels (and other modern cultural and social artifacts); the latter
> >>contributed to the making of Freud.
> >
> >"The poets were there before me." - Freud
> 
> Yes, but Freud wrongly thought that he could use ancient poets to
> illustrate the modern psychological space, as Carrol noted.

it's rare to see such unequivocal faith in modernity these days.

wake me up when the renovations on the 'the modern psychological 
space' are finished--i'm curious to see what humanity looks like
once it's dispensed with all that nasty 'history' baggage.

cheers,
t