Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670872210 ISBN 13: 9780670872213

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1999

Synopsis

In UNAUTHORIZED FREUD, Frederick Crews, one of the best-known and most trenchant opponents of psychoanalysis, frames the revisionist case against Freud in a selection of writings by historians and critics. Here Crews has assembled a powerful case against the coherence of Freud's brainchild. Free association, symbolic dream interpretation, the Freudian slip, female masochism, penis envy - each classical tenet of psychoanalysis is argued to be fundamentally flawed. Is the Freudian revolution now a thing of the past?

About this title

Synopsis:

Edited by Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, who is an opponent of psychoanalysis, a collection of essays by historians and critics making the revisionist case against Freud. Classic Freudian tenets, such as free association, symbolic dream interpretation and penis envy are argued to be fundamentally flawed.

About the Author:

The editor, Frederick Crews, is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670872210
• ISBN 13: 9780670872213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Crews Frederick