EDNote: If there are further misunderstandings in this discussion that
require clarification, I will of course allow their publication, but I
anticipate that these will be few or will somehow direct the topic back
towards VN.
Dear
Jansy and List,
May
I make it plain that I regard Jansy Mello's as, in general, among the
most interesting and imaginative, in the best sense, contributions to
this list. She is one of its mainstays, and without her it would be
much poorer.
But
her attempt to deflect to Wikipedia my point about using primary
sources seems to confirm my point. It is clear from what Freud wrote
that either Wikipedia or Masson is wrong, or both are. Freud was
already retracting his so-called "seduction theory" before there was a
single other psychoanalyst in the world, let alone a "psychoanalytic
inner circle". This is why I appealed to writers to this list to refer
to primary sources, in this case Freud.
Jansy
makes the psychological attribution that I "mistrust" her, and makes a
speculative ad hominem psychological attribution to me of my
possible psychological motives for this alleged ad feminam
"mistrust", namely that she worked for over thirty years as a
psychoanalytic lecturer, teacher and training-analyst. But this,
again, does not address the content of my point about the desirability
of using primary sources..
With
best regards,
Anthony
Stadlen
Anthony
Stadlen
"Oakleigh"
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GB - London N22 7XE
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Founder (in 1996) and convenor of the
Inner Circle Seminars: an ethical, existential, phenomenological search
for truth in psychotherapy
See "Existential Psychotherapy & Inner
Circle Seminars" at http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/
for programme of future Inner Circle Seminars and complete archive of
past seminars