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    Otto Fenichel argued that some cases of feeble-mindedness are actually pseudo-debility caused by inhibition, where intellect weakens when affective motives work against it. He suggests people become temporarily stupid in situations where understanding would cause anxiety, guilt, or disrupt an existing neurotic state. Doris Lessing similarly argued that intellectuals can display a kind of clever stupidity disconnected from real-world experience, stemming from rigid logical thinking.

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    Otto Fenichel argued that some cases of feeble-mindedness are actually pseudo-debility caused by inhibition, where intellect weakens when affective motives work against it. He suggests people become temporarily stupid in situations where understanding would cause anxiety, guilt, or disrupt an existing neurotic state. Doris Lessing similarly argued that intellectuals can display a kind of clever stupidity disconnected from real-world experience, stemming from rigid logical thinking.

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    Otto Fenichel argued that some cases of feeble-mindedness are actually pseudo-debility caused by inhibition, where intellect weakens when affective motives work against it. He suggests people become temporarily stupid in situations where understanding would cause anxiety, guilt, or disrupt an existing neurotic state. Doris Lessing similarly argued that intellectuals can display a kind of clever stupidity disconnected from real-world experience, stemming from rigid logical thinking.

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    Otto Fenichel maintained that "quite a percentage of so-called feeble-mindedness turns out to be

    pseudo-debility, conditioned by inhibition ... Every intellect begins to show weakness when
    affective motives are working against it".[14] He suggests that "people become stupid ad hoc, that
    is, when they do not want to understand, where understanding would cause anxiety or guilt
    feeling, or would endanger an existing neurotic equilibrium."[15]
    In rather different fashion, Doris Lessing argued that "there is no fool like an intellectual ... a kind
    of clever stupidity, bred out of a line of logic in the head, nothing to do with experience."[16]

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