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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
- phkahler 9y ago>> he generalized from single cases, even using himself as the single case. Or as I prefer to say it - very crudely: Freud desired to fuck his mother and projected his shame onto his patients. Then he wrote a whole theory about it based on how common he found it to be. The irony in that is stunning.
- dang 9y agoThat's a level of reductionism that I don't recall even in Fred Crews, and which we can well do without here.
- everdev 9y ago> He shows that Freud was a fraud who deceived himself and succumbed to pseudoscience. The author themselves presents an unscientific viewpoint as fact. Agree that much of Freud's work cannot be proven or reliably reproduced but the author doesn't do much better.