RE: Is Freud contagious?

From: Brad - Eufrates (brad.jensen@eufrates.com)
Date: Thu 26 Feb 2004 - 17:46:44 GMT

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      Freud is a wonderful poet but a horrible scientist. I think there is an article in Atlantic Monthly about how off-base and even dishonest Freud was.

    Brad Jensen

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    > [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Scott Chase
    > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:19 AM
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    > Subject: Is Freud contagious?
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    > In his book _Totem and Taboo_ Freud is discussing some of the
    > same topics re: totemism which Durkheim addresses in _The
    > Elementary Forms of Religious Life_, but Freud puts a
    > psychoanalytical spin on them by looking at so-called
    > "savages" (eg- native Australians) in similar terms as
    neurotics.
    >
    > Freud also addresses incest avoidance and mentions Westermarck.
    >
    > Anyway, here's a quote memeticists might want to ponder.
    > Freud reflects (page 42):
    >
    > (bq)"Anyone who has violated a taboo becomes taboo himself
    > because he possesses the dangerous quality of tempting others
    > to follow his
    > example: why should *he* be allowed to do what is forbidden to
    others?
    > Thus he is truly contagious in that every example encourages
    > imitation, and for that reason he himself must be shunned"(eq)
    >
    > ref:
    >
    > Sigmund Freud. 1950. Totem and Taboo: Some Points of
    > Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics.
    > WW Norton & Company. New York
    >
    >
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