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" [REF].
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."[REF] .