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Author Grünbaum, Adolf.

Title The foundations of psychoanalysis : a philosophical critique / Adolf Grünbaum
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 1984

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Description xiv, 310 pages ; 23 cm
Series Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science
Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science.
Contents Introduction: Critique of the hermeneutic conception of psychoanalytic theory and therapy -- The exegetical legend of "scientistic self-misunderstanding" -- Critique of Habermas's philosophy of psychoanalysis -- Critique of Ricoeur's philosophy of psychoanalysis -- Are repressed motives reasons but not causes of human thought and conduct? -- Critique of George S. Klein's version of hermeneutic psychoanalysis -- The collapse of the scientophobic reconstruction of Freud's theory
Part I: The clinical method of psychoanalytic investigation: pathfinder or pitfall? -- Is Freud's theory empirically testable? -- Did Freud vindicate his method of clinical investigation? -- Part II: The cornerstone of the psychoanalytic edifice: is the Freudian theory of repression well founded? -- Appraisal of Freud's arguments for the repression etiology of the psychoneuroses -- Examination of the psychoanalytic theory of slips -- of memory, the tongue, ear, and pen -- Repressed infantile wishes as instigators of all dreams: critical scrutiny of the compromise model of manifest dream content -- Appraisal of Freud's further arguments for the emergence of unadulterated repressions under "free" association -- Remarks on post-Freudian defenses of the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis -- Can the repression etiology of psychoneurosis be tested retrospectively?
Part III: Epilogue -- The method of free association and the future appraisal of psychoanalysis -- Critique of Freud's final defense of the probative value of data from the couch: the pseudo-convergence of clinical findings -- Coda on exegetical myth-making in Karl Popper's indictment of the clinical validation of psychoanalysis
Analysis Psychoanalysis Theories of Freud, Sigmund
Psychoanalysis Theories of Freud, Sigmund - Philosophical perspectives
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296)
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043849 -- Psychoanalyse
Subject Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic theory
Freudian Theory.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
Author Grünbaum, Adolf, 1923- Validation in the clinical theory of psychoanalysis
LC no. 83009264
ISBN 0520050169
0520050177 paperback
9780520050167
9780520050174 paperback