[lbo-talk] denial

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>Carl Remick wrote:
>>>
>>>  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.
>
>I love it when two major depressives agree on the status of psychoanalysis.

Me, depressive?  Hardly.  I'm depressogenic -- a carrier, a cause of 
depression in others.  Big difference.

Carl