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Yes I definitely agree with everything you say here regarding Freud's 'cases'. I'm more interested though in the impetus that has generated so much thought around the area of epistemology, and Lacan's thoughts on the primary tool of psychoanalysis as being language itself. We can only think of our 'self' in terms of the precursor which refers us back to the 'father'. But as I said, considering these matters outside the sterile atmosphere of the arena of abstract thinking, in the world where real people live, leaves one open to the accusation, and rightfully so, of emotional detachment. I think though that there might possibly be some connection between the rise of these new religious movements, such as tpr's, and the 'drop out' message of the 60's. If we are children in the evolutionary timescale, dependant on the authority of the father, then perhaps at least some of Freud's thinking might be rescued from the cosmic dustbin.
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