tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post367914677853240670..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: OK, what's going on here? Freud or no Freud?Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-59768395904706793052007-09-25T22:16:00.000-04:002007-09-25T22:16:00.000-04:00Since Freud did not see homosexuality as an afflic...Since Freud did not see homosexuality as an affliction: 'I am . . . of the firm conviction,' he famously wrote to the newspaper Die Zeit in 1905, 'that homosexuals must not be treated as sick people.' "<BR/><BR/>In a letter Freud wrote to an American mother offering advice about her gay son. Freud's letter reads: "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness." <BR/><BR/>I think Freud would not be amused if he were living in our day and time, but he would perceive some in the communion as having hysterical tendancies, and it is NOT the gays of whom I am speaking.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com