And appropriately enough, odd praise indeed:
>... we seem much more inclined to castigate Freud for his omissions
>and errors than Darwin for his. I suspect that there are two reasons for
>our
>differing attitudes toward these two pioneers. One is that Freud's
>failures,
>unlike Darwin's, have had a direct impact on the lives of individual human
>beings. Most of us don't suffer as a result of Darwin's having eventually
>attributed too much scope to the process termed sympatric speciation than
>it
>actually deserves. But a powerful man's mistaken ideas about women have
>certainly caused suffering ...
>
>Freud ... was outstandingly ungenerous: he denied credit to
>others, was intolerant of rivals, hated many people, and surrounded himself
>with unquestioningly loyal admirers. . . .
In short, behold the genius: a domineering, destructive quack.
Carl
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