Abstract
Critique of the editor's attack on psychoanalysis in the editorial MY BRAIN MADE ME DO IT, SAJP March 2009, Vol. 15, No 1
Highlights
To the Editor: It saddened and yet amused me to read Sean Kaliski’s offensive, dismissive, facile, and obviously grossly misinformed attack on psychoanalysis in the the March SAJP.[1]
It would be interesting to hear Kaliski’s view on just how the brain’s neurobiological activity is translated into Psyche’s imagistic mode of expression – it is these images that the depth psychologist uses, always mindful of the fact that a biological basis to Psyche is a given
Every schoolboy knows that there can be no psychic life without a physical brain!
Summary
To the Editor: It saddened and yet amused me to read Sean Kaliski’s offensive, dismissive, facile, and obviously grossly misinformed attack on psychoanalysis in the the March SAJP.[1]. What is so amusing in Kaliski’s dismissal of psychoanalysis’ claim of unconscious motivation informing our thoughts and behaviour is that he proceeds to supply us with a profoundly deterministic view (which is what he accused analysis of) of the brain’s ‘unconscious’ activity affecting our every behaviour and thought, to the extent that we have no free will.
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