Posted by caraher on December 3, 2005, at 21:47:39
In reply to Re: Anyone up to more serious psychological debate » Gee, posted by Dinah on December 3, 2005, at 21:31:54
I don't take seriously at all any of the details of the theories of Freud. I think his chief contribution was observing that there's a lot more going on in the psyche than what the conscious mind allows us to voice. The choice of metaphors used to articulate his ideas are so tied in time and place to a limited slice of humanity that I find it hard to imagine that there's anything genuinely universal about his explanations of... well, just about anything.
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