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Robot Emperor
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Edited Feb 15, 2012, 21:15
Re: The psychology of the reactionary right...2
Feb 15, 2012, 21:14
But doesn't psychology increasingly feel like a slightly embarrassing 20th Century cult? More than a little like Scientology that it begat? Remember Hubbard only turned Scientology into a religion when his followers were arrested for practising medicine without a licence...

Reich is the best of a bad bunch though. Here is a great quote by Anna Freud talking in 1968 about the early followers of psychoanalysis (which included Reich and Jung) -

"They were the unconventional ones, the doubters, those who were dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on knowledge; also among them were the odd ones, the dreamers, and those who knew neurotic suffering from their own experience. This type of intake has altered decisively since psychoanalytic training has become institutionalised and appeals in this stricter form to a different type of personality. Moreover, self-selection has given way to the careful scrutiny of applicants, resulting in the exclusion of the mentally endangered, the eccentrics, the self-made, those with excessive flights of imagination, and favouring the acceptance of the sober, well-prepared ones."

Give me the mentally endangered, the eccentrics, the self-made, those with excessive flights of imagination any day. At least you know where you stand, the appearance of respectability and an air of scientific detachment has meant we have swallowed a load of old bollocks these people have served up for the last 50 or 60 years.

The reactionary right. I don't agree with them but they are very effective iconoclasts that in different circumstances and core beliefs we would be applauding. It is certainly a revolutionary movement...

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