Foundations of Psychoanalysis, The
Type
Reference
Authors
ISBN 10
0520050177
ISBN 13
9780520050174
Category
Non Fiction
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Publication Year
1985
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Freud's Theory
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Abstract
This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment setting are themselves epistemically quite suspect.
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Critique de la théorie freudienne.
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