>Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>>But that is exactly what psychoanalysis does, which is why it is so
>>popular among literary critics and so ignored by people actually engaged
>>in trying to help people with mental illness.
>No it isn't. Interpretation and ferreting out secret meanings is the most
>insignificant part of psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis is more about making
>people conscious of the multitutde of ways they avoid being in the
>present. Most of these strategies, of course, have to do with relating to
>the present as if it were nothing other than a symbolic sediment of the past.
>
>Joanna
Carrol also missed the latest: neuroscience is actually uncovering the underpinnings of Freud's theory. See recent ish of Sci Am, april I think.
Kelley
"We're in a fucking stagmire."
--Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'