If one just read the popular press, one would worry that psychoanalysis was on its deathbed. Frederick Crews argues in The New York Review of Books (not exactly the popular press, but popular compared to the French psychoanalytic feminists) and elsewhere that not a single one of Freud’s distinctive claims has been corroborated by scientific study. To Crews, whatever is of value in Freud, is merely a turgid rehash of the literary tradition that runs from Plato to Proust.
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