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jwanderson commented on the word originology
Originology is a word coined by psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson and used it in both "Young Man Luther" and "Gandhi's Truth." In "Young Man Luther," he wrote that originology refers to "reducing every human situation to an analogy with an earlier one, and most of all to that earliest, simplest, and most infantile precursor which is assumed to be its ‘origins.’”
November 4, 2009
jwanderson commented on the word originology
"Originology" is a word coined by the psychoanalyst, Erik H. Erikson. He used it in both "Young Man Luther" and "Gandhi's Truth." In "Young Man Luther" he wrote, that originology refers to “reducing every human situation to an analogy with an earlier one, and most of all to that earliest, simplest, and most infantile precursor which is assumed to be its ‘origins.’”
November 4, 2009