can they ever get it right? See the article/review below.
Outside of the immediately obvious hindsight bias (aka
I knew all along bias) what other errors of commission
and ommission are made? Perhaps this would be a good
article to give to students after they've read relevant primary
I was not trying to be huffy... I think the question is ill-conceived.
On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Pollak, Edward wrote:
was Freud trying to be rational about irrational behavior?
What am I missing? If a student asked me that question I'd simply say,
yes, that's what he was TRYING to do.
Mike Palij wrote:
can they ever get it right?
Whatever one's position on conservatism and authoritarianism, the real
howler is characterizing Adorno as a neo-Freudian. He was a
Frankfurt-school Marxist sociologist. Of course there was some
Freudishness in the mix (as there was in a great
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:49:53 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Mike Palij wrote:
can they ever get it right?
Whatever one's position on conservatism and authoritarianism,
the real howler is characterizing Adorno as a neo-Freudian.
When I read this I was wondering whether it was now worse
to
Mike Palij wrote:
I believe that term that is becoming associated with this approach
is swiftboating, for obvious reasons. I wonder how long before
some students start adopting this as a writing style to deal with topicsthat
they disagree with.
Mike Palij wrote:
Wasn't Else Frankel-Brunswick supposed to provide the
descriptiion of the psychological mechanisms (clearly psychoanalytic)
that presumably would explain where authoritarian personality
tendencies came from? I'm not familiar with her background
but her follow-up in
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:32:26 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Mike Palij wrote:
Wasn't Else Frankel-Brunswick supposed to provide the
descriptiion of the psychological mechanisms (clearly
psychoanalytic) that presumably would explain where
authoritarian personality tendencies came from? I'm
So, after all of this disambiguation, does the author's referring to this
person as Freudian instead of more broadly psychodynamic still qualify as a
howler? Because, I have to say, this really ruined the punchline for me.
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman
Psychology Department
Box 3055
John Brown
The discussion shifted from Adorno, who was only as "neo-Freudian" as,
say, half of all European intellectuals at the time, to Else
Frenkel-Brunswik (a co-author of The Authoritarian Personality) who,
according to Mike, may have been somewhat more so (but it certainly
doesn't show in her
