Carl Remick wrote:
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> As for intellectual rigor,
> Freudian analysis itself ranks right up there with astrology, homeopathy,
> alchemy and phrenology.
That is misleading. The parallel is more to creationism and conspicacism. All three insist that they perceive a secret or secrets in the universe which is unavailable to ordinary methods of historical, scientific, or cultural analysis.
Carrol