Freud and the Question of PseudoscienceFor three decades Frank Cioffi has been at the center of the debate over Freud's legacy and the legitimacy of psychoanalysis. Cioffi has given startling demonstrations that, in one area after another, Freud's accounts of the development of his theories are untruthful. But Cioffi's even more impressive achievement has been to scrupulously distinguish the many different, often equivocal, assertions made by psychoanalysis, thus laying bare the mechanism of its rhetorical conjuring tricks. |
Contents
Why Are We Still Arguing about Freud? | 1 |
Wittgensteins Freud | 93 |
Freud and the Idea of a Pseudoscience | 115 |
Wollheim on Freud | 143 |
The Myth of Freuds Hostile Reception | 161 |
Symptoms Wishes and Actions | 182 |
Was Freud a Liar? | 199 |
From Freuds Scientific Fairy Tale to Massons Politically Correct One | 205 |
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