Re: Psychoanalysis Re: "happiness is a transitory state"

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

joanna bujes wrote:

> I don't think you need psychoanalysis to observe that human beings
> (uniquely among animals) go through a long, long period of dependence.

No, but people not familiar with psychoanalysis would dismiss early
experience as irrelevant to adult thinking & behavior - just like
Americans routinely dismiss things as "history," as if that consigns
them to irrelevance.

It's very interesting that some of PEN-L's most anti-Freudian posters
act out their psychopathology on the Internet every day.

Doug