When psychiatrists in NYC want to unwind on the weekend, they frequently go out on Long Island Sound and sail their Freudian sloops . . .
ah, me. and how much longer do the shrinks have to suffer for the hoary errors of Freud?
Several years back, say, about 20 years ago, an American was honored with the post of curator of the Freud papers. He published, not long thereafter, a book in which he contended that Freud had willfully altered the circumstances of the cases he reported, in order to hide child sexual abuse. Which is to say, this gentleman contended that Freud had constructed a tissue of lies and half-truths in the process of describing the dynamic of ego-id-superego, so as not to broach a taboo topic publicly, even within the medical profession.
I came upon this in the mid-1980's, but as it held no interest for the history in was studying at the time, i did not pursue it. I later read that Freud's daughter had brought suit against him, but i know nothing further of the incident.
You know, Setanta. We studied three theories of child development in University. Erik Erickson, sans credentials, made more sense to me than all of them.
Freud was a neurologist. My brother was pursuing a PhD in philosophy, and the topic of his thesis was "The extent to which Freud's profession as a neurologist governed the forumulation of his theories." He could talk your ear off on the topic, and was quite animated and interesting. That was many years ago (pre-1980), and he subsequently abandoned his endeavor, after writing a draft of the dissertation. He later explained that, as he was working three jobs at the time, and could look forward to making less as an assistant professor in philosophy than he was making at that time as the head waiter in a restaurant, he was not sufficiently motivated by his personal interest in philosophy to make a profession of it. He already had bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering, mathmatics and philosophy. He is now a soil-testing engineer, and makes quite a good living.
Well, Irish. We are our own best couches, I guess. As for me, still an unknown quantity..Reckon I'll ever be known? Tell your bro, that soonest our best men with thee do go...back to the soil..back to the roots..just back...
Well first i met a Yankee Girl
And she was fat and lazy
Then i met an Irish girl
She damned near drove me crazy . . .
No - most of us are not, in my experience, obsessed with our breastacles.
I take interest in mine only because they seem to amuse others - of the minly persuasion, which can be very nice - and because they get in the way.
hmmmmmmm . . .
get in the way of what?
They get in the way of a good stomach sleep! Or trying to politely squeeze past someone. Or running to catch the bus. (Yeah I can picture how attractive THAT looks!)
....but being as I'm female, I'm glad I have 'em....
Put it this way, I'd rather have 'em than hafta lose 'em.
Since we're in this topic area, I can't help think how vulnerable men must feel having THAT part of their male anatomy just swingin' in the breeze! Of course, some need not worry about it swingin'.
it is odd, isn't it? I have tried to imagine what it must feel like....
I value my breasts, really - cos I feel they may go any second - me mum died of breast cancer when she was three years younger than I am now - my GP told me a few years ago that I ought to consider a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy!!!! I worked with some women who did that, on a breast cancer unit. Fortunately, the specialist disagreed - yee hah! Dunno if I would have done it anyway....who knows...
Here's a digression - sort of on the theme, though...
I actually watched an episode of "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" tonight. One where a lovely fella, who was young, and had worn a toupee for 13 years - even his wife had not seen him without it - decided to get rid of it.
As he paced, ready to go downstairs and face the masses, I thought that at least we wimmins can put on a sort of mask for such tense occasions - some lippy, a bit of eye-liner - or the full catastrophe. He had NOTHING to hide behind....
deb
Ain't that just the funniest show to come along in a while?
Well from soil mechanics to masectomies to lip gloss in a couple of posts, impressive.
LOL! It IS a digression thread....
Yes - it was funny. You know - these people are way brave - imagine doing all that on mass consumption TV!!!!!
