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Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions
Dispatches from the Freud Wars Psychoanalysis and Its Passions Author:John Forrester In this challenging collection of essays, noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester raises a provocative point: no matter how you feel about Freud, you can't escape the influence of his theories. Through questions central to our century's ways of thinking, Forrester explores dreams, history, ethics, political theory, and ps... more »ychoanalysis as a scientific movement. By taking nothing for granted and leaving no clich of psychobabble--theoretical or popular--unturned, Forrester gives us a sense of the ethical surprises and epistemological riddles that a century of tumultuous psychoanalytical debate has often obscured.« less