anyone see a Mason & Dixon resonance here?

[David Morris]

To quote another phrase, "You dance like a crawfish."

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not at all. To quote a phrase, "You think like a Bircher." To say that
> Freud is mistaken in many of his conclusions, that his samples were
> inadequate, his methods unscientific and his generalizations
> oversimplified, and then to go on and say, as I do, that he is unduly
> revered, is not at all to say that anyone understands human
> psychology. Freud is the "father" of western psychology, but he is not
> the inventor of it. Not by a long shot. He synthesized information
> then current in the public domain very successfully and gained great
> fame. He just missed the boat at one of the ports of call along the
> way and failed to pursue his ideas along their logical paths. James
> Mark Baldwin and Jean Piaget went on to chart a much more successful
> approach to human psychological development. Still, they only went so
> far. Bladwin was ostracized for having got caught in a cathouse;
> Piaget's theories remain influential. The study of the mind is still
> one of the greatest uncharted territories left for us to explore.
> There is much more to it than sex and death, in my opinion.
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:38 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I never read Fiedler.  But Freud can't be so summarily dismissed.  He
>> was beyond a doubt a ground-breaker, and to conclude that he was
>> "thoroughly mistaken" implies that someone else is now NOT "thoroughly
>> mistaken."  Has human psychology been conclusively mapped today in
>> your opinion?  Have even the faintest lines of it been conclusively
>> sketched?
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Ian Livingston
>>> Freud's methods and conclusions were unsupported and thoroughly mistaken.
>>
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> "liber enim librum aperit."
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