Re: Behaviors that may indicate BPD

In sci.psychology article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: Freudian psychology is one of the hottest topics in academia these days. 

What utter twaddle!

:   Freudian psychologists like Lacan and Derrida are all the rage, in 

Maybe in the humanities, at the very best.  Folk there can't see through
his style (he was a very good writer) and find the total lack of substance
therein.  Besides, the humanities is where ideas end up when they can't be
tested empirically, or when the tests are ignored when the ideas are
demonstrated to be false, as in facilitated communication.

Not that they are free of value - they are simply a different baliwick.

: fact Derrida now tops the lists of works most often cited in scholarly 
: research. 

SCI tell you this?  I'd like to know.

BTW, this group was rmgrouped long ago (I want to say 1995) and replaced
with sci.psychology.misc (no, I don't agree with the 'empty stem rule' of
the Big-8).  Just so you know as propogation will be spotty.  If you
*MUST* stay here, you might want to add spm to the newsgroups line to
insure that your article gets to the majority of the Big-8 servers.  
(Though I do see spp in the line.)


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