[lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Exactly.  As I've said many times, a system that -- by its own frequent 
>>admisssion -- is driven solely by fear and greed is guaranteed to 
>>potentiate anyone's neuroses and bring out the worst in everyone.  
>>Piddling around with individual approaches -- i.e., sessions on the 
>>analyst's couch -- to this collective problem is ultimately a waste of 
>>time.  This country doesn't need better psychiatric benefits as much as it 
>>needs socialism.
>
>Why can't it have both?

No problemo.  I deftly sidestepped the false-binary trap by saying this 
country doesn't need better psychiatric benefits *as much as* it needs 
socialism.  Systemic change is the *higher* priority.  And time's a-wastin'. 

  I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving 
hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the capitalist streets at 
dawn.  We must do better than that.

Carl

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