by mythology I assume you're referring principally to the oedipus complex --
a very funny thought. the elaboration of the oedipus complex is no more
mythological than the aetiology of any mental disorder....
jb..
In a message dated 07/13/2000 9:45:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I have a great deal of experience and very little interest (or time) to go
into it in detail--again (it's come up in the past). I don't hate
Freud--don't give yourself an easy out--but I don't have much use for his
theoretical matrix. Nonetheless, he--and Lacan--can be usefully
provocative--although they take a lot of translating. And I appreciate that
there are people who have found analysis useful and perhaps have benefitted
from it in ways that they might not have from forms of treatment that don't
require the acceptance of a mythology. And more power to them.
I have always found in talk therapy that discovering and deconstructing the
particular patient's metaphors was more interesting than imposing my own.
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