Sure. For a start, virtually none of what Freud posited as givens are
generally accepted as such any more: there's no longer a consensus
privileging either early childhood or the parent-child relationship as
formative to anywhere near the degree that Freud imagined, and Freudian
patients and those educated in the Freudian outlook report an Oedipus
Complex far more often than anything resembling it was ever recorded before
Freud. There was also a wonderful study years ago (I could never retrieve
it) confirming what most practitioners already suspected--Freudian patients
have Freudian dreams, Jungian patients have Jungian dreams, etc. Why
shouldn't the views of a socially dominant member of a dyad have an impact
on the metaphors the other member uses to understand his inner life? Even
in our sleep we tend to try to please authority figures.
At 06:05 PM 7/14/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 07/14/2000 3:33:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> There's no point, I think, to doing this frontchannel--there's an enormous
> literature on the subject that deals, in fact, with each part of your
> statement and finds the evidence less than compelling. But this has been
> gone over here in the past as well. Time allowing, I'd be more than happy
> to discuss backchannel.
> >>
>
>I'm perfectly open to do this if we can find some common ground with which
to
>begin. I should tell you up front, however, that in the enormous literature
>you mention one can support nearly any position one chooses. but if we want
>to talk about what Freud says, or what Lacan says regarding your position on
>various concepts, I'd be willing to do that...
>
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