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Irish immunity to psychoanalysis

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  • #32
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    endacl wrote: »
    It's not an assumption. It's a line from the movie 'The Departed'. That's all it is.
    Bet you can't hold water though

    22/25



  • #33
    Permabear
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  • #34
    uch
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.


    I think yer mans on Yokes

    22/25



  • #35
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”


    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse


  • #36
    evolving tipperary
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    I think, Joyce's daughter was psychoanalysed by Jung...unsuccessfully.

    Jung had read Ulysses and sent Joyce a review of it...and quite liked it. But, Joyce didn't think much of psychoanalysis! Maybe, he was just 'jung and easily freudened', as Joyce put it.

    Dear Sir,

    Your Ulysses has presented the world such an upsetting psychological problem that repeatedly I have been called in as a supposed authority on psychological matters.

    Ulysses proved to be an exceedingly hard nut and it has forced my mind not only to most unusual efforts, but also to rather extravagant peregrinations (speaking from the standpoint of a scientist). Your book as a whole has given me no end of trouble and I was brooding over it for about three years until I succeeded to put myself into it. But I must tell you that I’m profoundly grateful to yourself as well as to your gigantic opus, because I learned a great deal from it. I shall probably never be quite sure whether I did enjoy it, because it meant too much grinding of nerves and of grey matter. I also don’t know whether you will enjoy what I have written about Ulysses because I couldn’t help telling the world how much I was bored, how I grumbled, how I cursed and how I admired. The 40 pages of non stop run at the end is a string of veritable psychological peaches. I suppose the devil’s grandmother knows so much about the real psychology of a woman, I didn’t.

    Well, I just try to recommend my little essay to you, as an amusing attempt of a perfect stranger that went astray in the labyrinth of your Ulysses and happened to get out of it again by sheer good luck. At all events you may gather from my article what Ulysses has done to a supposedly balanced psychologist.

    With the expression of my deepest appreciation, I remain, dear Sir,

    Yours faithfully,

    C. G. Jung


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  • #37
    Earthhorse
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    That explains why our mental health services are so criminally underfunded.


  • #38
    Bobby Baccala
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    Someone's been watching The Departed too many times....


  • #39
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    If a placebo works then great!
    Oh I agree 100%.
    We seem to have developed a huge snobbery around forms of therapy, if it works for the client then it's good by me!
    Again, that's cool and I'd not be snobbish about it, I would be wary of quite a bit of the science behind it though. Of all the areas of medicine I can think of no other that comes close to the levels of "what were we thinking" all the way up to downright quackery and recently with it that the psych stuff can lay claim to. We've come a long way from the likes of Bedlam thank christ, but we've a long way to go.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #40
    PowerToWait
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    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Psycho wha? D'you think we're gay or something?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmTgpsvkqt8

    Bill's a lot funnier these days. And man his voice has aged.


  • #41
    Two Tone
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    fryup wrote: »
    the irish are half mad, end of
    Ah you can't be that mad can you?


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  • #42
    dd972
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    Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »
    Does the supposed assumption that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis hold any water.

    No, it's just another quip based on the notion that the Oirish are the most whimsical, witty, mercurial and unique maverick people on the planet and people who aren't born there have missed out on it all.


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