Freud Evaluated

Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc

The 1997 MIT Press edition
Author Malcolm Macmillan
Country Netherlands
Language English
Genre Psychology
Published 1991 (Elsevier Science)
Media type Print
Pages 762
ISBN 9 780262 631716

Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc is a 1991 book about Sigmund Freud by Malcolm Macmillan. It has been praised by critics of Freud.

Scholarly reception

The work received a favorable reception from several critics of Freud.[1][2][3][4] Literary critic Frederick Crews described Freud Evaluated as "the single most important book about Freud's ideas."[1] Allen Esterson calls the work, "a painstaking scholarly and remarkably wide-ranging historically-based critique of Freud's theoretical framework which will remain an invaluable sourcebook for many years to come."[2] Cultural historian Richard Webster writes in his Why Freud Was Wrong (1995) that the book is a "valuable resource, full of meticulous readings and close study of the development of Freud's ideas", and contains much important material absent from earlier works such as Frank Sulloway's Freud, Biologist of the Mind. However, he disagrees with Macmillan over the work of French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and medical issues related to hysteria. Webster believes that Macmillan sometimes accepts psychogenic theories of illness too readily, and that greater emphasis should be placed on the role of the neurological and neuropathological complexity of the human organism in the development of disease.[3] Philosopher Todd Dufresne calls Freud Evaluated, "a strong, comprehensive, although fairly dry, examination of the early history and theory of psychoanalysis".[4]

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References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crews 2006. p. 352.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Esterson 1993. p. ix.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Webster 2005. pp. 560-561.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dufresne 2007. p. 162.

Bibliography

Books
  • Crews, Frederick (2006). Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. Emeryville: Shoemaker Hoard. ISBN 1-59376-101-5.
  • Dufresne, Todd (2007). Against Freud. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5548-1.
  • Esterson, Allen (1993). Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8126-9231-4.
  • Webster, Richard (2005). Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: The Orwell Press. ISBN 0-9515922-5-4.