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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 12 Feb 2018, 13:29 ---They were not going to arrive at a verdict that might interfere with killing him.
I wonder whether he was capable of love. Probably, under a special, restricted set of circumstances.
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Might I suggest taking a gander at Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt, and written as a report for The New Yorker. BTW, Arendt was a Jew who fled Germany during Hitler's rise to power.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Feb 2018, 21:30 ---Okay, speak to me. What's the problem? If I've offended you, tell me. I genuinely wanted to understand your opinion. I have no beef with you and meant nothing more by that expression than its literal meaning.
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The literal meaning being my original statement was nothing but an attack on Freud?
Honestly, I was trying to decipher what upset you. My statement about Freud and Cocaine was pointing out that science and medicine marches on from a time when we had simplistic views of mental health and cocaine was sold over the counter as a wonder drug. Entirely relevant, considering the comment I was responding to was about what Freud would think. I didn't know why you apparently felt the need to take it personally on Freud's behalf.
Tova:
I don't have time to explain my comment in full, except to assure you that I was not, and am still not, the slightest bit upset.
Your first comment was directed towards Freud. The second one was directed towards the statement specifically. I found the second more persuasive. That is all I meant to say.
Is it cold in here?:
We could have a fascinating thread about definitions of mental health.
Emily is functional and safe to those around her. She has deficits in her contact with reality. She is by her own assessment weird, but we must avoid pathologizing weirdness.
I think it's perfectly all right to point out that Freud would not be adequate grounds for an argument from authority. It's just I've never seen a pithier definition of sanity.
WoaLG:
Emily is a Cloudcuckoolander.
It's best to just accept it. Trying to psychoanalyze a Cloudcuckoolander is bad for most people's mental health.
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