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[ Burying Freud Homepage | Freud's Seduction Theory Homepage ] In the second of his articles on the Burying Freud Web site Frederick Crews makes the following comment: "Self-evidently, the public is entitled to know which distinctive claims of
Freud's, if any, have received significant confirmation outside the Freudian belief
system. The answer is: not a single one. Readers I wonder if ANY belief system can receive significant confirmation from outside itself. Is confirmation not linkage? It would seem impossible -- no? -- to confirm something as valid and not become an extension of the system one confirms. One's corroboration or lack thereof links or separates -- except, of course, if one clings to the fantasy that one's "pure" value-neutrality positions one outside (above) such effects, such consequences, into some disembodied realm of pure judgement, and/or as the unwashed, uninformed psychotherapists have it, infantile narcissistic omnipotence. Crews opens his post referring to a self-evident public entitlement; who is this "public"? Many analysts would consider it only an object representation of Crews' own mind -- much as American politicians use the "American People" as synonymous with their own followers. As for "self-evident" -- does this "self" relate to this same public? To Crews? To me? To those advocates for psychoanalytic debunking whom Crews represents? I thought the quality of "Self-evidence" is exactly what so irritates these people about the psychoanalytic paradigm. I wonder how much of this sudden paradigmatic "confrontation with the heathen" is politically or economically-driven, as such ventures often seem to be.
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[ Burying Freud Homepage | Freud's Seduction Theory Homepage ] In the second of his articles on the Burying Freud Web site Frederick Crews makes the following comment: "Self-evidently, the public is entitled to know which distinctive claims of
Freud's, if any, have received significant confirmation outside the Freudian belief
system. The answer is: not a single one. Readers I wonder if ANY belief system can receive significant confirmation from outside itself. Is confirmation not linkage? It would seem impossible -- no? -- to confirm something as valid and not become an extension of the system one confirms. One's corroboration or lack thereof links or separates -- except, of course, if one clings to the fantasy that one's "pure" value-neutrality positions one outside (above) such effects, such consequences, into some disembodied realm of pure judgement, and/or as the unwashed, uninformed psychotherapists have it, infantile narcissistic omnipotence. Crews opens his post referring to a self-evident public entitlement; who is this "public"? Many analysts would consider it only an object representation of Crews' own mind -- much as American politicians use the "American People" as synonymous with their own followers. As for "self-evident" -- does this "self" relate to this same public? To Crews? To me? To those advocates for psychoanalytic debunking whom Crews represents? I thought the quality of "Self-evidence" is exactly what so irritates these people about the psychoanalytic paradigm. I wonder how much of this sudden paradigmatic "confrontation with the heathen" is politically or economically-driven, as such ventures often seem to be.
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