metonymy4u

It seems to me that many modern psychologists (Freud, Beck, Chomsky, Hayes) have done what Descartes did: they have started looking for causal powers in something that is manifest to humans and not to animals. These authors have also, like Kant, renamed the name of the given and transferred its home to the mind, to the social order, to language, to cognition, etc. They want you to believe they have climbed a new mountain, returned with a new in-sight, or dis-covered a new rule. But a relational frame is no more interesting, as a cause, than the id, original sin or a dream visited demon. All are events given in experience, none more or less real than my computer or the hills outside my window.