On Jul 3, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I think this paragraph is an excellent illustration of the fact that
> Freudian psychology is merely a form of literary criticism -- it plays
> with words as though they were words in a poem, n0t as though they
> referred to any feature of human thought or feeling or personality.
>
> This explains why Freudianism exerts such attraction on scholars in
> the
> humanities and so little on psychiatrists, psychologists, or
> neuroscientists.
You were - are? - a literary scholar. How'd you remain immune?
Anyway, Freud said "the poets were there before me." And what's wrong with that? Why doesn't literature offer any insight into human thoughts, feelings, or social relationships? And why isn't it worth listening carefully to what people have to say?
You've told us many times about your deep depression. Maybe if you'd seen a shrink and talked about it, you might have suffered less.
Doug