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The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique

By Adolf Grunbaum

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1985
ISBN
9780520907324
DOI
10.1525/9780520907324
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17538607 bytes)
Series
Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science; 2
Pages
256\324
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 16:13:23

Description

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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