[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Psychology research

[JKirkpatrick]

> Freud's "only a cigar" gave him mouth cancer from which he
died.

This is irrelevant.

JK 

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Joanna,

Actually, I share your misgivings.

> what bugs me is the tendency to ascribe only neurotic
motivations to 
> any and all critics, rivals etc.
> Castigation may just be castigation, like a cigar sometimes is
a just 
> a cigar, as the great man said.

Sometimes. And sometimes not. Freud's "only a cigar" gave him
mouth cancer from which he died.

Th