>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>>Katha Pollitt wrote:
>>
>>>Susan's question is exactly what is so frustrating about the
>>>Freudian POV. If you accept it, fine. if you reject it, you're in
>>>'denial."
>>
>>Or as Katie Roiphe once said to me, explaining why she hated Gloria
>>Steinem,feminists are "humorless and anti-sex." A roughly
>>equivalent level of caricature.
>>
>>Denial isn't just about "rejecting" something - it's about the
>>nature of that rejection. A disproportionately or weirdly intense
>>rejection of something smells like denial ....
>>
>>The quality of many of the anti-Freudian arguments here, coming
>>from a bunch of intellectuals, has been so weak that I suspect that
>>they're not emerging from the higher cerebral functions.
>
>Seems to me that qualifies as a "weirdly intense rejection" of Katha
>Pollit's astute assessment of Freudianism's inherently totalitarian
>mindset. I believe it is you who are in denial, Doug. As for
>intellectual rigor, Freudian analysis itself ranks right up there
>with astrology, homeopathy, alchemy and phrenology.
No I'm in misaddress mode. Sorry.
Doug