Andy: Do you mean that the idea that there is such a thing as the
unconscious is a hoax, or the way psychiatry is practiced is a hoax?
Eric: As Marie-Louise von Franz shows in _What Me Worry_ , both
psychiatry and hoaxes stem from a single unconscious cell of
unresolved personality conflicts accessible only in dreams. This
"sleeper cell" is believed to have its psychogenesis in early
childhood difficulties in negotiating transitions in the first three
or four stages of Piaget's development. Now that Piaget is dead,
however, both psychiatry and hoaxes are said to be free floating,
able to attach themselves to any stage of life through Internal
Process Existential Bridge-Response Adaptation (IPEX-BRA)*. The
latest wave of cognitive scientists, however, reject this
explanation, and are still trying to figure out what's going on.
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*See Murray and Murray, "Bridge Response and Jazz Quartets," The
Journal of Bad Owweee," Dover, 2003. Lately this thesis has received
considerable support.
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