[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>  Wafting, floating, drifting, slithering from one proposition to another:
>> the usual term is "brainstorming", suspending critical censorship and
>> releasing the mind to follow associations where it will. Often to
>> foolishness but sometimes to genuine insight.
>>
>
> Well, I don't know. Floating, drifting, and slithering don't strike my
> failing ear as synonyms, or even cousins. 'He slithered between a number of
> vague possibilities,' is a bit reptilian, but maybe that's what happens in
> old brain storming.


No, you're right. Not only reptilian, a bit too active as well.

John

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