The bare-knuckled argumentative style of Frederick Crews’ inexhaustible critique of Freud was, if you will, caught red-handed in this piece on Freud’s neglect of anti-Semitism:
Writes Crews in his review of Roudinesco’s “Freud: In His Time and Ours”, appearing in The NY Review of Books, February 23, 2017:
“Freud was slow to recognize the Nazi menace to Jews in general and psychoanalysis in particular [and] obsessed with his privately chosen enemy, the Roman Catholic Church, blind[ed] himself to the greater threat [of Nazism].”
In fact, within the same paragraph of “Civilization and its Discontents” (Standard Edition, v. 21, pp. 114-115)––three Continue reading On Crew’s Freud: What’s Left? by Harvey Peskin
Click Here to Read: Top 10 books about psychoanalysis: Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure ny Philippe Van Haute and Herman Westerink on the Guardian website on May 10 2017.
Antony Sher (Sigmund Freud) and Indira Varma (Jessica) in Terry Johnson’s play, Hysteria. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Click Here to Read: Introduction to Arnold Richards by Jane Hall.
Click Here to Read: The Dialectics of Psychoanalytic Process in a World of Theoretical Pluralism by Joann K. Turo.
Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D.
Click Here To Read: Introduction: Integrative Plurality in Psychoanalysis by Arthur A. Lynch, Ph.D., Introduction to Arnold Richards’s Critical Conversations: Selected Papers Volume 1.
Click Here to Read: Post script from Jane Hall.
