Frederick Crews, the eminent literary critic and perennial Freud censor,
opens his new study with an important question: “If Freud’s career and
its impact are so well understood, what justification could there be for
another lengthy biographical tract?” This question is especially
pertinent since, as Crews goes on to note, Freud’s scientific reputation
has plummeted over the past generation. Medical authorities have
broadly recognized the faulty empirical scaffolding of psychoanalysis
and its reliance on outmoded biological models. Mainstream American
psychologists moved on decades ago.
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