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>From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
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In article <1992Feb14.010922.8804@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
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>I agree: it's common knowledge that Freud spent every minute of his
>association with Charcot shooting cocaine and reading anonymous Victorian
>smut.  Likewise, the vast empirical data collected in the course of his
>Viennese practice concerns only neurotic middle-class Jewish women, and
>is ipso facto irrelevant to the rest of the world.
>
His time with Charcot was time well spent.  Charcot was ten times the
scientist Freud ever was.  The cocaine snorting and ridiculous
generalizations from hysterics to the rest of the world came
later, as you well know.

>Oh, it's not just that remark, it's Freud and Marx together in "the dustbin
>of history".  There's something about the people who would have such hopes
>or expectations of theories and ideas, that strikes me as quite obviously
>reactionary.

Quite the reverse.  I am an anarchist, and it is a strong antipathy
to authority and orthodox systems that moves me.
Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis are
two of the most pernicious systems of orthodoxy to arise recently.
I'd be happy to see some of the older authorities also consigned
to the same dustbin.





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