Re: Re: Against Psychologism

2000-04-15 Thread Ted Winslow
Hi Doyle, If you read what I wrote with good will, you will see that I: (1) linked Klein's version of psychoanalysis to the Kant/Hegel/Marx view of "rationality" and human development, a view which, as I interpret it, allows for rational as well as irrational "feelings"; (2) contrasted it with

Re: Against Psychologism (was Re:Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion from Anti-racism/anti-imperialism)

2000-04-14 Thread Ted Winslow
Yoshie wrote: Keynes' remarks demonstrate that an explanation of post-modernism (or anti-anti-Eurocentrism, for that matter) should be neither psychologized nor generalized. For instance, such psychologization allows one to argue that a criticism of post-modernism = self-righteous

Re: Against Psychologism

2000-04-14 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, I hadn't commented upon Ted Winslow's psychological remarks in part because what is there to say after all? But since Yoshie felt like putting up a statement against psychologism I would add my own thoughts. The core of Freud has to do with instincts in the mind. Rule