Reworking Anna's Psychoanalysis

[Paul Mackin]

A word from one of the Main Dudes on the virtue of radical pointlessness.



". . . . Freud hypothesized that the best way to refashion our world for 
the better is to adopt a new way of speaking to one another. Above all, 
this radical way of talking is defined by what appears to be extended 
pointlessness, something we are increasingly incapable of tolerating as 
the world around us moves ever faster. There are books to read, mouths 
to feed, meetings to attend, corporations to fight or defend, new places 
to visit, starving children to save…who has the time? And yet it is 
precisely in not allowing ourselves the time to be “unproductive . . . ."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/freuds-radical-talking/?hp