Why Freud was wrong : sin, science and psychoanalysis
Language: English
Published by London : HarperCollins, 1995
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Front cover is torn, somewhat detached from spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvii, 673 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939. Psychoanalysis History. Genre: Psychology. Language: English. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- Why Freud was wrong : sin, science and psychoanalysis
- Author
- Webster, Richard
- Publisher
- London : HarperCollins
- Publication year
- 1995
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0006384285
- ISBN 13
- 9780006384281
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
To Webster, psychoanalysis, for all its rationalism and professed secularism, is a "crypto-theological system,'' a modernized reworking of traditional Judeo-Christian morality, sexual realism and restraint. He portrays Freud as the founder of a messianic movement that placed at its core a confessional ritual: the therapy session. Freud's hero-worship of crackpot Berlin physician Wilhelm Fliess, his demonizing of dissidents such as Alfred Adler and Carl Jung, his inflating of successful therapeutic results and his overbearing, aggressive, even prosecutorial attitude toward his patients come under scrutiny. Yet, though Webster calls psychoanalysis a pseudoscience, he contends that it nevertheless has yielded productive insights about human nature and society because of its internal logic, sophistication and emotional nuance.
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