[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Pinch Me ...a message from Michael Moore
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:26:14 -0800 (PST)
Because then it would be called expression instead of depression. Expression
properly done is in fact the antidote for depression. And I don't pull this
stuff out of a hat. It's all based in contemporary understanding. Just
because something is invisible to the naked eye doesn't mean it doesn't
exist.
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Pinch Me ...a message from Michael Moore
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:36 AM
--- On Thu, 6/11/08, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The emotions of a child and pain of an adult are the same
> thing.
This might be termed an 'Andyism'. Therapy-speak and the uncritically
held Freudian theory of the mind as a hydraulic system [so anger etc. directed
inward produces depression] (why not argue, conversely, that depression is anger
directed outwards) seem to characterise this POV that does not deign to offer
reliable empirical tests in support of itself.
Donal
Doubtless merely angry and depressed
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