Freud and the Irish, How to Make That into a Book?
April 27, 2008
I have had so many hits on my blog because of this, I thought I should turn this into at least a story. Any comments on how to do this are more than welcome and when it gets published I will think of a great prize for you. (Now THERE is incentive)! 
Maybe Freud as detective? Then again, supposedly he cannot fathom the Irish (a case he cannot solve)?
Dear Readers, let me know what you think!
July 20, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Freud said, “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.” This does not imply, in any way, that he couldn’t psychoanalize an Irish patient or that he couldn’t figure them out if they were agreeable to it. What Freud meant was that in his practice he found the Irish posed a willful RESISTANCE to analysis and were uncooperative in that regard, which thoroughly negates the purpose of the process. If a patient refuses to consider or accept this kind of psychological exploration and what it uncovers they will not benefit by it. This is what Freud was referring to.