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A debate has dragged on for many years, and continues unabated, about the status of Freud’s work and of psychoanalysis generally The main issues concern evaluating psychoanalysis in terms of its claims to scientific status, and exploring related questions such as the falsifiability of its hypotheses or how psychoanalytic models and methods stand in relation to recent developments in physiologically based scientific psychology.
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Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, trans. Denis Savage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970).
For an excellent analysis of these issues, as well as an applied reinterpretation of psychoanalytic theory in a non-Western context, see Gananath Obeyesekere, The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
Didier Anzieu, Freud’s Self-Analysis, trans. Peter Graham (New York: International Universities Press, 1986), p. 512.
Serge Leclaire, Psychoanalysing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), p. 16.
Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated under the general editorship of James Strachey, 24 vols. (London: Hogarth Press, 1953–74) (hereafter SE), vol.V, The Interpretation of Dreams, p. 517.
Jean Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Norton, 1973), p.395.
Jacques Derrida, Resistances of Psychoanalysis, trans. P. Kamuf, P.-A. Brault, and M. Naas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), p. 13.
Sigmund Freud, The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, trans. J. M. Masson (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 255; also see Anzieu, Freud’s Self-Analysis, p. 226.
Cornelius Castoriadis, World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination, ed. and trans. David Ames Curtis (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 128.
Richard Webster, Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (London: Fontana Press, 1995), p. 272. Webster neglects to substantiate his account with references to Freud’s text; however, the relevant passages can be found in Freud, Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, SE, vol. VII: 73–74.
Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text, trans. Stephen Heath (London: Fontana Press, 1977), p.141. Barthes illustrates, in his analysis of Jacobs struggle with the angel (Genesis 32:22–32), that similar qualities to those we have discerned in the dream narrative appear in religious texts. These likewise call for a type of reading that is multiple and open-ended.
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DiCenso, J.J. (2001). Dreams, Inner Resistance, and Self-Reflection. In: Bulkeley, K. (eds) Dreams. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08545-0_19
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