We've got to purge Aristotle from our system." "I've never read him so why do I have to purge him from my system?" "It's proof of his grip on Western… - Peter De Vries

Or look at it this way. Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad. A vogue here to stay because it tells an old story in a new way. I mean the traditional conflict between flesh and spirit, as viewed by the Christianity now supposedly outmoded, isn't likely to ease up because we have scrapped the notion of sin and now speak instead of the ego and superego between them riding herd on something called the id. It's the same keg of nails any way you open it. "Id" isn't just another big word, either. Far from it.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.