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@John James

[/url]But in any case, along with this delusion he has also ingrained a guardian complex, etc.

What a load of psychobabble. I nominate “Dr.” John James for the position of “resident psychoanalyst.”

Psychoanalysis as a Weapon

Blaming radicals for their own persecution is akin to another reversal tactic frequently practiced by Freud. Thus, in one of my favorite works of Tom Szasz - the unfortunately neglected Karl Kraus and the Soul Doctors - Szasz writes of Freud’s response when one of his entourage, Fritz Wittels, delivered a psychoanalytic “character assassination” (as Szasz correctly calls it) of Freud’s brilliant critic, Karl Kraus. Freud’s reaction was that “we have reason to be grateful to Wittels for making so many sacrifices.” On which Szasz comments:

This is one of Freud’s characteristic verbal tricks, which he often applied to his own attacks on others as well; it is not Kraus who was sacrificed by Wittels, but Wittels who has sacrificed himself! It is a good tactic if one can get away with it, and, by and large, Freud got away with it.[7]

See also:

Szasz on Freud