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Freud and Nude Psychotherapy for Criminal Psychopaths
One more addendum to the question of Freud and science. The gravest deployment of psychoanalytic theory was in psychopathology, and it’s here that I have the greatest trouble with Freud’s influence. Now, the history of ...
Alasdair MacIntyre on Freud: A More-than-Scientific Unification of Concepts
As a follow-up to Ernest Gellner’s attack on psychoanalysis, here is Alasdair MacIntyre with a more charitable critique of Freud. Up until the time of After Virtue (still a fascinating book), MacIntyre was a fairly keen observer ...
Ernest Gellner and The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason and the Cunning of Freud
Finishing off the examination of Ernest Gellner and his well-meaning but somewhat pig-headed Enlightenment Fundamentalist Rationalism, we come to his attack on psychoanalysis, The Psychoanlaytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. This book was published in 1985, 35 ...
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