[lbo-talk] cleansing

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 11 20:04:24 PDT 2009


On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote:


> Hang on... I was under the impression that you can't simply apply
> psychoanalytic theory to anything and everything. You have to have a
> good
> idea of the people involved otherwise it means nothing. Certainly some
> connections can be made, but these are spurious.

No shit? I hadn't realized that!


> This notion that you can arbitrarily call every stockbroker an
> obsessional
> (i.e. anal figure) is total nonsense. Many stock-brocker's are
> hysterics...
> men who avoid commitment through building their own egos (i.e. with
> symptoms
> other than anality)...

That would be nonsense, if I'd said anything like that.

You feel free to comment on texts you haven't read, don't you?

Doug



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