> Butler's intro
> Doug Henwood :
>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1999/1999-January/000610.html
>
> One of the reasions the Psychic Life of Power interests me is that it
> tries
> to link psychoanalysis and politics, which is something I've been
> playing
> with on and off for about 20 years. Lately I've been thinking a lot
> about
> why people believe and think the things they do, in ways that in
> political
> terms often seem at odds with their self-interest. In the old days, we
> might have attributed this to false consciousness, but we're a lot
> less
> sure of what's true and what's false in these newer days, and besides,
> it
> still wouldn't answer the question of why so many people should
> embrace
> falsity when they should know better, and with such apparent passion.
Doug,
Is this kind of thing feeding into your current project?
-- Andy