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The denouement of metapsychology

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I once had a philosophy professor named Anderson who said everything twice, so we called him “Anderson-Anderson.” We used to think of him as just a funny character, but I realize now that he said everything twice-twice because he was trying to drum some very important ideas into us.

I remember particularly the day he lit into a student who was trying to prove that the world could be reduced to mathematical formulae. “Those aren't numbers-numbers out there,” Professor Anderson rumbled. “Those are people-people. Those are people out there!”

John David Stein

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Warme, G.E. The denouement of metapsychology. Am J Psychoanal 41, 249–259 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01254713

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