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Title: Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis by Richard Webster ISBN: 0-465-09128-8 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read
Comment: This a damning biography of Freud, making him out to be not only incorrect, but also dishonest - a man who fabricated evidence and theories in order to become famous. It's a great read. This is my bias (and was before I read this book): I don't like Freud's stuff. I think it's absurd, unhelpful and particularly damaging to women. Furthermore, I have come across no evidence to support it. For this reason, reading a book bashing Freud did not in any way offend me. I enjoyed it. People who quite like Freud, however, might not like this book so much. Actually, there is not very much at all about Freud's theories and publications(except his very early stuff), it's more a summary of Freud's acts of dishonesty and faking of evidence, and a general description of an obnoxious character who somehow sucked in an entire generation.
There's a broad description of the precursors to modern psychology at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, which I found fascinating and recommend to anybody interested in the history of psychology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Riddle of the Sphinx, Riddle of Freud
Comment: One looks back on the Freudian age with as much wonder at its flourishing as its sudden demise. The confusions of psychoanalytic thinking and the poor foundations on which it was laid were always concealed in the humanistic insights that gave the theory appeal and seeming cogency in the reign of positivism. This brilliant disguise behind an incoherent metapsychology hides a theory that was a casualty of the impossible demands placed on a science of psychology by the demands of reductionist science. Finally, in the account of Webster, we see the fatal account of the details of record in Freud's early research whose great success seems more a brilliant feat of paradigm promotion than of any breakthrough in science. The oddity of Freud's thinking is and remains a mystery in itself. The legacy of the invisible strain of Schopenhauer botched is seldom seen here, and the source of confusion over the 'unconscious' can be instantly clarified by seeing this positivist nosedive of the earlier 'right sense of the noumenal self' and its unknowability. Perhaps this was the poignant ambition of the scientist triumphant here, where defeat was foreordained by the philosopher.
This book reads as a relief to anyone who survived the onslaught of this charming muddle with its impossible financial demands placed on the curse of being neurotic, even as one senses we have not heard the last of Freud. One might fault the conclusion where sociobiology is seen to come to the rescue with still another confusion of the basic issues in still another ambitious science whose fate will be another book like this one. But anyone who suffered the arm-twisting pretensions of this reign in thought will find a swift exit from the mesmerizing contradictions of Freud's theories. And yet a legacy of Freud remains as soon as the mind is freed to reconsider the issues from scratch without the fixation on certainty in the basic tenets. But for the moment it is important to simply a necessity to be free from the false claims and demands of what was an impostor theory, hard as it is to make that statement of one of the most enigmatic minds of the twentieth century. This book can be very helpful in simply moving on without looking back.
Rating: 3
Summary: Just a Suggestion
Comment: Read about 1,000 pages of Freud's writing before you make any judgements.
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Title: Killing Freud by Todd Dufresne ISBN: 0826468934 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute by Frederick Crews ISBN: 0940322072 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell ISBN: 0761501657 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375412883 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ISBN: 1592400876 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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