Are you defending Freud or the idea of a "soul" and an afterlife?
Mark
At 09:12 AM 1/15/2001 -0800, Jon Corelis wrote:
> Komninos Zervos may not realize it, but his remarks on dreams are
>almost a summary of part of Freud's theory of dreams. A couple years
>ago the newspapers reported that some scientists had done experiments
>which proved that dreams where actually constructed out of random sense
>impressions from the previous day, and much was made of how this
>invalidated Freud's views on dreams. In fact, Freud was almost the
>first person to realize that dreams are constructed from a "detritus of
>sensory impressions" primarily from the day preceding the dream, and he
>goes into this in great length. The scientists' discovery, far from
>being at odds with Freud's theory of dreams, was a validation of one of
>its bases. But then Freud, like Marx, is one of the authors whom people
>feel they have every right to criticize even if they have never read a
>word of him.
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>When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his
>limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry
>reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power
>corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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> -- John F. Kennedy
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