Re: deprogramming language

Steven Gabriel (sgabriel@willamette.edu)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:03:56 -0700 (PDT)

> Your post was very interesting and instructive (and I think you made some 
> good points), but from beginning to end I, for one, have no desire whatsoever 
> to give Freud anything other than some due credit for influencing history, 
> and a large kick in the ass.

I went to pains in previous posts to leave Freud's posterior unbruised,
but this was probably little more than politeness on my behalf.  That
particular comment was aimed at Matt.  Freud should be seen as a
placeholder that can be filled with the name of any thinker that has
generalized from a large picture instead of investigating details.

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