Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:08:42 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: BHA: Voloshinov etc Tobin Nellhaus wrote: > > > "Steve" has misread me, since I didn't say I oppose anti-psychoanalysis, > only Lacan, whose ideas (last I heard) are not the only theories of > psychoanalysis. There was, for example, Freud. Of course, "Steve" could > still be correct, but he has no way to know whether he is or isn't. For the most part, it seems to me that the last holdout for psychoanalysis is in humanities departments. It has (quite rightly) been expelled from most medical schools. The evidence against it accumulated by Frederick Crews seems pretty decisive. Freud (and his followers) treat both dreams and "everyday" life as though they were literary constructs; the whole of this pseudo-science, then, is a form of literary criticism, not of psychology or psychiatry, which is probably why so many lit students still cling to it despite all evidence to the contrary. Carrol --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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