Doug wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
I don't think you need psychoanalysis to observe that human beings
(uniquely among animals) go through a long, long period of
dependence.
No, but people not familiar with psychoanalysis would dismiss early
experience as irrelevant to adult thinking & behavior - just like
Americans routinely dismiss things as "history," as if that consigns
them to irrelevance.
Early experience is surely important, but empirical examinations give
us an understanding of different upbringings producing different
outcomes whereas psychoanalysis paints a monolithic picture based on
the psychological model of the bourgeois family circa the late
19th-early 20th century.
--
Yoshie
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