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

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joel Blau wrote:

> Surely this is not an either or proposition.  Precisely because we are
> dealing with a social problem, it is incumbent upon us to examine from
> as many different perspectives as possible, why they don't react the way
> we prescribe.

In a panel on Psychoanalysis & Politics at 2001 (?) Rethinking
Marxism conference, one of the participants said that she didn't
expect socialism would make us all mentally healthy - it would just
give us a better set of problems to work on.

Doug