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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. > > >==== > > >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. > > -- John F. Kennedy >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > >