Novels vs Scientific Psychology

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  • May 5, 2015 at 8:39 pm #24157
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    “It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology”
    ― Noam Chomsky

    Agree? Disagree?

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    May 5, 2015 at 8:55 pm #24159
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    More fun with Noam.
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    “We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide.
    Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche.
    If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”

    ― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian

    May 5, 2015 at 9:02 pm #24161
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    wv wrote:

    Agree? Disagree?

    I agree.

    Though, depends on the novel.

    The novels I like the most are about psychologists.

    May 6, 2015 at 4:45 pm #24200
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    Agree to this extent: If one reads a ton of novels-as my wife does-one obtains a pretty good sense of this gathering we call humans. OTOH who reads a ton of scientific psychology books?

    May 7, 2015 at 3:32 pm #24263
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    waterfield wrote:

    Agree to this extent: If one reads a ton of novels-as my wife does-one obtains a pretty good sense of this gathering we call humans. OTOH who reads a ton of scientific psychology books?

    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore

    “It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

    May 9, 2015 at 7:37 pm #24356
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    I think every human being should wright a novel. We would then really learn about human values and “personalities”.

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