Re: [A-List] Awakening from the Nightmare of History

["tony black" <tal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Though it is IMO true that many cultural and political institutions and products can be usefully analyzed though the conceptual prism of collective myth and fantasy (i.e. See James Hillman's scintillating 1972 work, 'The Myth of Analysis' for just such an investigation of the history of Western science, and, particularly, of modern psychiatry), I am, at the same time, extremely wary of attempts made to explain collective, social phenomena within the constraints  of individualistic - and thus reductionistic -  parameters.

 

...And of course, sometimes, a cigar.. is just a cigar.

 

Tony