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Freud and His Critics (Paperback)
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Wars against Freud were waged along virtually every front in the
1980s. In Freud and His Critics, Paul Robinson takes on three of
Freud's most formidable detractors, mounting a thoughtful, witty,
and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science
Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, and the
philosopher Adolf Grunbaum. Frank Sulloway contends that Freud took
most of his ideas from Darwin and other contemporary thinkers-that
he was something of a closet biologist. Jeffrey Masson charges that
Freud caved in to peer pressure when he abandoned his early
seduction theory (which Masson believes was correct) in favor of
the theory of infantile sexuality. Adolf Grunbaum impugns Freud's
claim to have grounded his ideas-especially the idea of the
unconscious-on solid empirical foundations. Under Robinson's
rigorous cross-examination, the evidence of these three accusers
proves ambiguous and their arguments biased by underlying
assumptions and ideological commitments. Robinson concludes that
the anti-Freudian writings of Sulloway, Masson, and Grunbaum reveal
more about their authors' prejudices-and about the Zeitgeist of the
1980s-than they do about Freud. Indeed, they fundamentally distort
and diminish Freud, pointedly ignoring his remarkable historical
achievement-the invention of a new way of thinking about the self
that has revolutionized the modern imagination. This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1993.
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