Post Freudian Language Contamination

There is nothing that we humans love as much as sticking labels. Over the past century psychiatric, mythological and pop psychology concepts seeped into the common language. Next thing you know people through around contemptuous names like neurotic, bipolar, narcissistic, etc. without any idea what it means. Take classical Freudian neurosis for starters, it is no longer taken seriously by the so called “professionals”. Yet the tag is now firmly planted in the vernacular vocabulary of the malcontent. This is all a pure language contamination to conceal any meaning. People are desperate in their search for the oblique. So if quoting and referencing is not helping in the valiant quest to avoid an opinion and a genuine reaction, then there is a second line of defenses, lobbing pseudo lingo into a conversation. The contaminated tags betray real genuine reaction; steer clear of attention and escape empathy like a plague.

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