Re: The origin of personality

For me the problem with dismissing Freud and related accounts of
personality is that the alternatives seem to lack explanatory power.

Freud made it it possible to understand why some people engage in
self-defeating behaiours, why there are people who like being
humiliated, why people are driven to repeat the same mistake again and
again. The sort of theory advocated in the above article offers a basic
account of how people come to be sorted into groups, but offers no
insight into general nuttiness of human beings...

Lance

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