Posted by Anna Laura on July 23, 2001, at 5:15:50
In reply to Re: FXR and Freud, posted by geekUK on July 23, 2001, at 4:08:28
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> > > > suggest that if you're interested in dreams
> > > > and how they work, Freud's book "The
> > > > Interpretation of Dreams" still stands,
> > > yep, read it, quite good.
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> > Good, now how about "Totem & Taboo"?
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> > nope, is that his penis envy book? or am I wrong. The sexual enlightenment of children is really good. By the end of the book I beleived it, but then later reexamined the idea and thought ??WHAT///???
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I used to be a Freud's fan when i was a teen-ager, later on, when i experienced psychoanalisis myself and i read his books "between-the-lines", i came to realize he was just a fine rethor, a talmudist, and after all just a good amunuensis of the spirit of his time (zeitgeist).
He was just very good at concealing the fragile points of his theories, and very able in re-writing these theories over and over again.
I think he could have been a very good attorney. And, why not, a fine novelist. (he won a literary award after all, and the austrian novelist Arthur Schneitzler called him his "literary double").
I suggest these books : Why Freud was wrong By Richard Webster and Final Analisis by Jeffrey Masson, and why not, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying (she was married to apsychoanalist after all!).
poster:Anna Laura
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