[PEN-L:3379] Re: Psychoanalysis

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Louis, in part:
> Finally, on the question of whether psychotherapy can help people. For
> everyday garden variety neurosis, there simply is no evidence that it can.
> The reason for this should be obvious. Capitalism is the main source of
> unhappiness, although people are not conscious of its effects on their
> lives. Alienation is generated by the system itself. One of the reasons I
> have spent so much time reading and writing about primitive communism is
> that the evidence points in the direction of this type of unhappiness as
> being historically determined, and not a function of the human psyche as
> such.

If you haven't already encountered James Hillman, you really should.
                                                                     valis