<<Forgive me IP...and should be given a rest>>

Well, I don't have much use for Freud, either but I wouldn't call him a stage in human thought. (One thing about Freud, he doesn't understand Kant). I'm not really sure where all the suffering of the last century comes into the discussion. At any rate, I'm didn't mean to launch into a defense of his thinking -- only to suggest that one need not dismiss him. Poetry is also useless -- but I like some of it.