Defending Freud (side A)
Why Theory
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What's the Point of a Hoax Article?
This does go back to 1996 and two publications, post theory and the Alan Sokel article. He publishes a hoax article in Dukes that's like the top postmodern journal at the time. The same thing happened 20 years later, 2016, with bereavement studies. But anyway, the whole point is that nobody, nobody understands this stuff. Anybody who does is, is, is lying. And I think that this is an attitude that you will also see in like people love to imagine that wine experts don't know anything about wine.
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