Explananda Re: Psycho-sexual explanation

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Mar 31 17:08:52 PST 2003


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:


> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> And who said all psychological factors are purely individual?
> Symbolic structures circulate socially; American children aren't born
> knowing all the cliches about race that permeate our society. Freud
> has a line somewhere about how children adopt ego ideals appropriate
> to their "family, class, and nation." He gave it only a line, but you
> could spend a lifetime exploring the links between the individual
> psyche and social myths.
>
> Doug
>

I agree. You can probably guess what I think is the dependent variable here.

Miles



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