At 02:15 AM 2/5/2008, Tahir Wood wrote:
>Doug, could I point out something to you in the friendliest way
>possible? You are clearly very busy, and the list itself is pretty
>demanding, and what I'm picking up often now is that you scan messages
>pretty quickly and decide what you think they are saying, based partly
>on your preconceptions. I once wrote a PhD thesis on text interpretation
>so I like to think that I know a bit about this. Nowhere in my message
>could I possibly have been taken to deny that there is "some link".
>I
>took pains to point out through such careful and emphatic phrases as
>"all in itself" to suggest that sexual repression cannot possibly be THE
>SOLE explanation of fascism. For one thing that would leave many aspects
>of the phenomenon unexplained. For another, it would be a rather naive
>notion of causality. A useful way to think about this is always in terms
>of necessary vs sufficient conditions. I'm not sure whether repression
>is a necessary condition for fascism to emerge, but I'm pretty sure it's
>not a sufficient condition. That would be so easy to refute that it's
>not worth arguing: one would only have to have only one individual who
>has never performed the sex act in his/her life, who turns out not to be
>a fascist, perhaps a liberation-theologian priest or some such case. I
>did suggest that early psychoanalysts often overreached themselves in
>their claims for their emerging science.
>Tahir
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