"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." Sigmund Freud

[pnwmom]

So we're all working on being non-neurotic.

:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

1. You are channeling Freud?

Seriously?

That says a whole helluva lot more about YOU than it does me...

[pnwmom]

2. He had some insights. One of them was that we have to learn to deal

with ambiguity in our lives.

For some reason you call quoting him, "channeling Freud." That says more about YOU than about me.

[Luminous Animal]

3. Physician, heal thyself.

[pnwmom]

4. He would have agreed with that. n/t

[Luminous Animal]

5. I was refering to the quoter (i.e.; you) not the quoted.

[pnwmom]

6. I thought the quote was apt given all the strong feelings

with regard to the ambiguity of the debt ceiling bill. And I didn't exclude myself from the population of people who need to deal with uncertainty and ambivalence.

Interesting that you felt a need to make this personal. Did I hurt your feelings?

:shrug:

[Forkboy]

7. Neurosis is a pretty good band too.

But, if we're going to be quoting Freud I have a few of his I'd like from to share from my collection of his quotes...

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."

"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

"One is very crazy when in love."

[Odin2005]

8. Freud was a sex-obsessed freak. Give me Jung and Maslow.