Just to show the kind of thing our students find as "fact" on the internet - that Freud was phobic about the number 62: http://www.funfacts.com.au/sigmeund-freuds-personal-phobia/
Where do these things come from? Beth Benoit On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I was listening this week to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", a radio > programme on the USA national public radio network, which combines witty > comment with a current events quiz. I love the programme (you can catch > it at http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/archives.html). > > In the course of the quiz, they asked a contestant what phobia Freud had. > The correct answer, they claimed, was that he was afraid of ferns. > > Ferns???? I'm aware that Freud was a very strange man, but this is too > much. Can it possibly be true? > > Hmm. If we only had a Freud scholar on this list... > > Stephen > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] > 2600 College St. > Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > > Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of > psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > -- "We will not learn how to live in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter "Are our children more precious than theirs?" --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
