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To: liberallarry
They may share share this observation superficially, but the reasons, grounds, etc., are very different.

Freud thought it was correct...and that's good enough for me.

I tend to have the opposite view. If Freud thought it was correct...then it's probably not!

29 posted on 12/02/2006 7:12:30 AM PST by Fraulein
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To: Fraulein
They may share share this observation superficially, but the reasons, grounds, etc., are very different.

Not for this simple observation - which is shared by many, many observant people.

If Freud thought it was correct...then it's probably not!

Here, it's important to distinguish between Freud - who was truly a genius - and his followers - who most defitely were not. I don't agree with Freud's constructs (ego, id, etc.) and his therapies have proven to be mostly ineffective...but he was a great observer and his ideas were a vast improvement on previous thought.

Again, though, we are dealing with a simple but profound insight and my point was to show that many great and thoughtful men had had it.

45 posted on 12/02/2006 8:03:10 AM PST by liberallarry
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