This volume contains two essays by Frederick Crews attacking Freudian psychoanalysis and its aftermath in the so-called "recovered memory" movement. The first essay reviews a growing body of evidence indicating that Freud doctored his data and manipulated his colleagues in an effort to consolidate a cult-life following that would neither defy nor upstage him. The second essay challenges the scientific and therapeutic claims of the rapidly growing recovered-memory movement, maintaining that its social effects have been devestating. Crews traces that movement to a Freudian precedent - not just to Freud's abandoned "seduction theory", but also to the most essential assumptions of psychoanalysis itself. When the essays were first published in the "New York Review of Books", therapists, patients, scholars and philosophers responded with numerous letters. Twenty-five of these were published, with Crews's replies. Most are gathered in the book, together with a new introduction describing the genesis of his pieces, and an epilogue considers the debate and its reverberations. Frederick Crews is the author of "Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Critical Method", "Skeptical Engagements" and "The Critics Beat It Away: American Fiction and the Academy", which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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This volume collects Frederick Crews's two controversial essays on Freud from the New York Review of Books, "The Unknown Freud" and "The Revenge of the Repressed," as well as some of the critical letters provoked by their original publication in 1993 and 1994. In these essays, Crews elaborates upon his belief that "the relatively patent and vulgar pseudoscience of recovered memory rests in appreciable measure on the respectable and entrenched pseudoscience of psychoanalysis." Recovered memory therapy, according to his thesis, is a grossly negative practice that, in turn, has its origins in Freudian assumptions about psychoanalysis--assumptions that Crews charges were based on fraudulent data and intellectual bullying. As the reader responses indicate, these ideas were like a grenade tossed into the center of psychoanalytic culture, made all the more powerful by Crews's lively prose.
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This volume contains two essays by Frederick Crews attacking Freudian psychoanalysis and its aftermath in the so-called "recovered memory" movement. The first essay reviews a growing body of evidence indicating that Freud doctored his data and manipulated his colleagues in an effort to consolidate a cult-life following that would neither defy nor upstage him. The second essay challenges the scientific and therapeutic claims of the rapidly growing recovered-memory movement, maintaining that its social effects have been devestating. Crews traces that movement to a Freudian precedent - not just to Freud's abandoned "seduction theory", but also to the most essential assumptions of psychoanalysis itself. When the essays were first published in the "New York Review of Books", therapists, patients, scholars and philosophers responded with numerous letters. Twenty-five of these were published, with Crews's replies. Most are gathered in the book, together with a new introduction describing the genesis of his pieces, and an epilogue considers the debate and its reverberations.Frederick Crews is the author of "Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Critical Method", "Skeptical Engagements" and "The Critics Beat It Away: American Fiction and the Academy", which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Compilations of journalism rarely turn into books of resounding intellectual importance: this is an exception. Crews writes about Freud and the "recovered memory movement" with grace and clarity, and also with a merciless, vitriolic anger which would seem excessive were it not for the strength of the case he mounts. He describes psychoanalysis as "the paradigmatic pseudoscience of our epoch" and Freud's legacy as one of "immense damage." Some of the responses to Crews' original essays, reprinted here, tell you more about the sorry, deeply dishonest state of the psychoanalytic profession than they do about the author they seek to criticize. Nobody interested in psychoanalysis and the unconscious--indeed, nobody who thinks that Freud is one of the great men of the twentieth century--should miss the opportunity to boil their brains clean in these remarkable pages. ---Richard Far
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Get a copy of one of those pocketbooks with the classic freudian ideas and get a copy of this book and you'll pretty well have all you need to know about psychoanalysis. This was the funniest book I'd read since Don Quixote.
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Compilations of journalism rarely turn into books of resounding intellectual importance: this is an exception. Crews writes about Freud and the "recovered memory movement" with grace and clarity, and also with a merciless, vitriolic anger which would seem excessive were it not for the strength of the case he mounts. He describes psychoanalysis as "the paradigmatic pseudoscience of our epoch" and Freud's legacy as one of "immense damage." Some of the responses to Crews' original essays, reprinted here, tell you more about the sorry, deeply dishonest state of the psychoanalytic profession than they do about the author they seek to criticize. Nobody interested in psychoanalysis and the unconscious--indeed, nobody who thinks that Freud is one of the great men of the twentieth century--should miss the opportunity to boil their brains clean in these remarkable pages. ---Richard Far
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I have always been a fan of the intellectual debates in the New York Review of Books letters to the editor pages. This book consists of two articles by Crews and the subsequent debates surrounding them. I would have liked to see better defenses of Freud, but none of the eminent defenders of psychoanalysis is able to mount a serious challenge to Crews's devastating attacks.
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For those of you who have swallowed the Freud legend hook, line, and sinker, this book may help get you off the hook.
Seriously, though, this book is not one to miss, regardless of your theoretical beliefs.
For you Freudians, it dispuptes the naive hagiographies of Peter Gay and Jones, and prepares you to engage in the current battles that rage about Freud and his ideas. You might not like what it says, but it will challenge you and force you to more critically evaluate your beliefs. Like it or not, many of your colleagues and students are now challenging Freudianism, and the challenge is stiff, indeed. A Freudian needs to be prepared!
For those of you already skeptical of Freud's claims and disconcerted at the negative sequelae of his theories, this provides a wonderfully cogent dissection. It is easier to read than some of the other titles in this area (such as Malcom MacMillon's "Freud Evaluated, the Completed Arc"), yet covers the ground well.
Given the unexamined Freud worship found in most textbooks and class materials, it is a wonderful addition to a class textbook (and I use it as such). I highly recommend this book to all.
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What is most disturbing about Crews is his intellectual dishonesty in setting up "straw men", especially early ideas of Freud's that Freud himself later modified -- as Crews well knows. (However, it is possible that Crews is less dishonest than I believe, and merely ignorant.)
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Any reader of this interesting volume should also read Crews' early works in literary criticism. It is a highly educating experience to learn the development--or should I say the radical change-- of his opinions over the years. Anyone versed in the history of psychoanalysis should also discern a pattern not altogether differerent from Jung and others. As a polemical writer and literary critic Crews is substantially talented; as a thinker, alas, he is recycled Popper with a vicious bite, though I'm not sure he understands Popper, who supposedly converted him to a Freud basher. Crews is all too ready to attack Freud whenever he can,with his considerable rhetorical resources,and to this worthy cause he will devote the rest of his life, I'm sure. So we should not be surprised when, decades later, the world finds it a life spent in vain.
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