[lbo-talk] Freud

[Louis Kontos]

It depends what you mean by science. Using a strict (contemporary)
definition we would not be able to deal intelligently with any important
topics or issues related to human psychology.  The DSM, for instance, has
removed 'neurosis' as a category through which people's problems can be
understood -- so you can no longer be neurotic. In its place we have a whole
bunch (a thousand pages) of new categories that do not revolve around
anecdotes or require much interpretation of any kind, and, in the process,
make it possible to treat people like machines. Do you really believe that
there is no such thing as 'unconscious' life? I mean, apart from the meaning
Freud gave it, it isn't exactly a new idea.
Louis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Freud


>
> --- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Where in the hell has it been hiding all this time?
> >
>
> Where in the hell is this ghost called the
> uncononscious? Is it inside of me or does it hover
> around with my guardian angel? I also ask Carl's
> question: what does "scientific" have to do with
> Freud? At best, it is imaginative speculation based on
> anecdotes. How many people did he study and how many
> stories were contrived in order to fit his theory?
>
> -Thomas
>
>
>
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