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Re: VN vs. Freud (fwd)
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From: Brad Buchsbaum <brad@petlab.mssm.edu>
I would bet the professor in question is _not_ in the psychology
department. Freud has been, for the most part, banished from academic
psychology, only to be taken in as a sort of wounded refugee by the
humanities. Freud's case studies are patently unscientific. They read
like Sherlock Holmes mysteries, without the mystery. The conclusion is
foregone: a question regarding some "neurosis" is posed and then Freud
proceeds to explain how he discovered that the cause was an unconscious
sexual mechanism. The questions may change, but the answer is invariable.
It makes for poor suspense. An inverted thriller.
Brad
I would bet the professor in question is _not_ in the psychology
department. Freud has been, for the most part, banished from academic
psychology, only to be taken in as a sort of wounded refugee by the
humanities. Freud's case studies are patently unscientific. They read
like Sherlock Holmes mysteries, without the mystery. The conclusion is
foregone: a question regarding some "neurosis" is posed and then Freud
proceeds to explain how he discovered that the cause was an unconscious
sexual mechanism. The questions may change, but the answer is invariable.
It makes for poor suspense. An inverted thriller.
Brad