On 17 Dec 2012, at 16:00, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As to the point raised by Lenin's Tomb - mental illness does not occur
> in social vacuum, so one needs to consider both the mental disorder
> and how that disorder functions in a particular social context.
>
> ...
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> While we are at this, I don't really understand why so many lefties
> are so dismissive of affective and mental disorders.
All sensible, but I hope I didn't give the impression that I am opposed to using psychoanalysis in this context. As I hoped would be clear, I was using some Lacanian ideas to offer an alternative to what appeared to be a glib psychologism on the part of the FBI's criminal psychologists.