Christoph Reuss wrote:
Brad McCormick wrote:
I like to think of
psychoanalysis as a *transitional* discipline
Doesn't it rather "cement" the status quo? Freud was a
predator "par excellence"...
[snip]
I do not dispute that psychoanalysis "works both good and evil"
(--Sophocles).
I've experienced both sides. I had one "supervisor" who manipulated
students with flat-out lies and ominous threats.
On the other hand, I learned from an analyst that it was possible to
have something other -- better! -- in life than being altruistic [I get
hurt for someone else's benefit] or selfish [I get some pleasure
in life by making someone else suffer]. This analyst said: "when I
was growing up, it was just obvious that you did things that both
gave you pleasure and did good for others."
Freud, too, as I understand him, was a "mixed bag". He did immense
good and he also did harm [including, e.g., probably causing
the death of Sandor Ferenczi by shunning him for not following
the psychoanalytic "party line"]. In the realm of theory, Freud
both greatly extended hermeneutics and also believed in
psycho-physics....
Psychoanalysts are like any other specialist in having special skills
that can be used for good or for evil, and also in not necessarily
being as wise as they are skilled. But the skill they have is one
of the most powerful, up there with nuclear physics and
biochemistry.
Some psychoanalysts are neo-cons of the soul; others are "zeros";
others are revolutionaries; others are egomaniacs.... Donald W. Winnicott
was a "good guy"; Karl Abraham seems to me to have well deserved
his sirname....
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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