anyone see a Mason & Dixon resonance here?

[Ian Livingston]

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

I wish I were so adept. I don't dance at all. Is that a Pynchon quote?
I don't recognize it.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:25 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "liber enim librum aperit."
>>
>



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