Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140280170 ISBN 13: 9780140280173

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

Frederick Crews, the most trenchant and authoritative of Freud critics presents a collection of writings by 18 experts that the New York Observer has called 'the Doubters' Greatest Hits'. Free assocation, symbolic dream interpretation, the Freudian slip, female masochism, penis envy - each classical tenet of psychoanalysis is argued to be fundamentally flawed. Crews makes a formidable case that the Freudian revolution is now a thing of the past. 'Assembles the most persuasive criticisms of Freud that the past twenty-five years of revisionist scholarship have yet produced. Unless psychoanalysis can begin to answer some of these charges, its power to compel our belief may be at an end' - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140280170
• ISBN 13: 9780140280173
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Crews Frederick