| Description |
xxxi, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. Wrong from the Start. 1. "Anna O.: The First Tall Tale" / Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. 2. "Freud's Master Hysteric" / Peter J. Swales. 3. "Was Freud a Liar?" / Frank Cioffi. 4. "Self-Seduced" / Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. 5. "The Rhythm Method" / Frank J. Sulloway -- II. The Illusion of Rigor. 6. "Made-to-Order Evidence" / Adolf Grunbaum. 7. "Manifestly Fallacious" / Rosemarie Sand. 8. "Error's Reign" / Sebastiano Timpanaro. 9. "Can Intuitive Proof Suffice?" / Barbara Von Eckardt. 10. "Claims Without Commitments" / Frank Cioffi. 11. "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" / Malcolm Macmillan -- III. Psychic Inspector Clouseau. 12. "Delusion and Dream in Freud's 'Dora'" / Allen Esterson. 13. "A Little Child Shall Mislead Them" / Joseph Wolpe and Stanley Rachman. 14. "Exemplary Botches" / Frank J. Sulloway. 15. "The Primal Scene of Persuasion" / Stanley Fish. 16. "Culture Vulture" / David E. Stannard -- IV. We Few. 17. "Free Fall" / Ernest Gellner. 18. "Paranoia Methodized" / John Farrell |
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19. "Sons and Killers" / Francois Roustang. 20. "The Marriage Counselor" / Lavinia Edmunds |
| Summary |
Frederick Crews's Unauthorized Freud surveys the growing field of revisionist Freud studies and decisively forges the case against the man and his creation |
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Over the past thirty years, a revolution has occurred in the study of Sigmund Freud and his brainchild, psychoanalysis. The Freud of legend - the lonely scientific pioneer who steeled himself to place importance on his patients' unbidden sexual revelations, cured their neuroses, and discovered the universal Oedipus complex lurking within his own memories - has been exposed as a fiction, a joint concoction of Freud himself and his official biographer, Ernest Jones. The emerging truth is that Freud was a dogmatist who browbeat his patients and consistently failed to mark the crucial difference between their fantasies and his own. And while the heroic Freud has been shrinking to human size, philosophers and psychologists have been finding that psychoanalytic evidence offers no credible support for the top-heavy, tottering Freudian system of mental laws and powers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-288) and index |
| Issuing Body |
Full bibliographic record available from Mason's Book Centre |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Psychoanalysis -- History.
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| Author |
Crews, Frederick C.
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| LC no. |
98011418 |
| ISBN |
0670872210 (alk. paper) |
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