[lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 22 13:32:29 PST 2005


Miles Jackson wrote:


>Sure, people can do both; it's just depends on which question you
>want to answer. "Why does that doofus make that bogus claim
>time and again?" --Analysis of motives is helpful. "Is that
>claim bogus?" --Analysis of motives is irrelevant.

And I might suspect that you're really into hard data because you want to separate the kind of psychology you do from all that squishy unscientific stuff the Freudians do. That wouldn't invalidate your position, but it would add some perspective to how to interpret it.

Doug



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