The Psychoses (was Re: ...muck...)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 7 08:32:40 PST 2000


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Ken is engaged in precisely the kind of shit that first provoked my
>politicization several years before I dreamt of becoming a marxist.
>Apparently Ken's whole world revolves around put-downs of the
>bulk of the human species. He uses Lacanianism as a club. That
>is contemptible. It also brings out clearly that Lacan's theories are
>not only silly but aggessively corrupt and corrupting.

Oh come on. Jesus. You don't like Lacan. You don't like psychoanalysis. We all know that. Ken is not "putting down" the "bulk of the human species." "Aggressively corrupt and corrupting" is just bombast. You can disagree with someone without casting him as hellspawn.

Doug



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