From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>
To: RadPsyNet-Members@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri Sep 30 9:20 PST
Subject: Re: [RadPsyNet-Members] References to the idea of Freudian psychoanalysis as unscientific
Hum:
For instance, regarding the "four idols." The "idol of the nation" points to possible failures to find truth from facts, in the sphere of what today we'd call "prejudice." Thus, there is a commonplace in the women's movement - I learned of that in the early seventies - that Descartes took the point of view that "women are subjective, men are objective." Which indicates that his ideation regarding "scientific method" is not always well grounded. That critical insight was one of the ideas that promoted the development of "feminist psychology" - now Div. 35 of the APA. Bacon said that building one's inductive method around prejudices, such as "sexism" would be a deficient approach.
You are trivializing my argument, which is a bad way IMHO to handle this conversation.
Andrew Phelps
client/survivor activist and instructor in statistics
On Fri Sep 30 1:29 Hum sent:
Freud had many more than four idols - he had an entire menagerie of fetish statues. If I recall correctly, he purchased many of them in curiosity shops and flea markets during his lunch break in London. Adorable, n'est-ce pas?
