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Originally Posted by SeaKing
Interesting. I sometimes quote the saying: "A neurotic builds imaginary castles in the sky, and a psychotic attempts to live in those castles."
Is there a parallel saying for your "words of Freud" for a psychotic?
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The phrase "in the words of Freud" tends to be used to give credit to Sigmund Freud for the words (as translated) which are being quoted. There's nothing more to it than that.
Freud wrote about psychotics quite often, so I'm sure you could find a Freud quote that seemed to illustrate the point of your comment.
However, your comment seems not to be a response to my post. It quotes decontextualized words from my post, and addresses me in the rhetorical sense, but I'm not sure it addressed the point of what I said.
Contrasting the neurotic with the psychotic -- possibly in order to suggest an inherent difference between Apple fanboys and anti-fanboys? -- looks to be related to the stereotyping I mentioned in my post, but it might also be an example of that kind of stereotyping.
The trap would be associating a mindset with a
brand and, by extension, everyone who buys products made by the company that owns it. Cf. my diagnosing you with an Oedipal complex based on your wearing Duckie Browns instead of Seavees.
Personally, I wouldn't characterize all Apple users as psychotic any more than I would all Android or PC users as neurotic. The need to engage in
any sort of consumer's brand war is what seems neurotic to me, not the particular choice of brand to which the warrior happens to prove loyal.
But perhaps you were only asking whether I could recommend a useful Freud quote to you. In fact I have two clinical psychologists and a therapist in my family, so I could certainly ask. One of them has the job you often see in forensic shows -- the fellow who profiles dangerous criminals -- and he might have some particularly good one-liners about psychotics. Trouble is, they won't be quotes from Freud.