From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Fri 27 Feb 2004 - 06:54:22 GMT
At 09:30 PM 26/02/04 -0500, Scott wrote:
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>Which totally ignores my quote of Freud where he uses contagion and
>imitation in the same breath. Freud was prescientific for psychology and
>prescient for memes, if my quote from _Totem and Taboo_ amounts to anything.
Is there any continuity between what Freud said and later concepts like
culturgens? Or was this just a happenstance that never went anywhere?
>Though flawed his system was an evolutionary psychology in his day. And he
>did have a decent background in neuroanatomy before going batty in
>psychoanalytic tangents.
He started a cult.
Keith Henson
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