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grufty jim
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Edited Jan 22, 2009, 20:13
Re: Self-indulgence par excellence. Sorry.
Jan 22, 2009, 20:11
stray wrote:
As my own personal opinion goes, admittedly not worth much, I do not like psychoanalysis when employed on an individual. However, I have a lot less issues, in fact I'm quite excited, by the possibility of it being employed on groups actually as groups. If that makes sense. Hope so.

Snap!

I wrote something almost identical two and a half years ago in my review of Gregory Bateson's seminal Steps to an Ecology of Mind (in my view and without an ounce of exaggeration; potentially the most important book of the 20th century):

"And it’s fair to say that it’s my views on psychology that have been most influenced by Bateson. Probably the most mind-blowing essay - for me - is Morale and National Character. In it Bateson very clearly presents the reasons why it’s not only legitimate to view and analyse nations using the tools of psychoanalysis, but why those tools are actually far better suited to that task than they are to the task of analysing the individual."

Weird, huh?
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