The foundations of psychoanalysis : a philosophical critique / / Adolf Grünbaum

• Autore: Grünbaum Adolf
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1984
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)
• Disciplina: 150.19/52
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis - Philosophy
• Soggetto non controllato: anxiety; behavior; childhood memories; childhood; clinical observations; clinical theory; desire; dreams; early psychology; ego; feminism; free association; freud; gender; id; logic; mental health; mental illness; misogyny; molestation; neuroscience; neurosis; nonfiction; personality; philosophy; psychoanalysis; psychological defenses; psychological disorders; psychology; rape; reference; repressed memories; repression; sexual assault; subconscious; superego; talking cure; therapy; trauma; unconscious
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Critique Of The Hermeneutic Conception Of Psychoanalytic Theory And Therapy -- 1. Is Freud's Theory Empirically Testable? -- 2. Did Freud Vindicate His Method Of Clinical Investigation? -- Introduction -- 3. Appraisal Of Freud's Arguments For The Repression Etiology Of The Psychoneuroses -- 4. Examination Of The Psychoanalytic Theory Of Slips-Of Memory, The Tongue, Ear, And Pen -- 5. Repressed Infantile Wishes As Instigators Of All Dreams: Critical Scrutiny Of The Compromise Model Of Manifest Dream Content -- 6. Appraisal Of Freud's Further Arguments For The Emergence Of Unadulterated Repressions Under "Free" Association -- 7. Remarks On Post-Freudian Defenses Of The Fundamental Tenets Of Psychoanalysis -- 8. Can The Repression Etiology Of Psychoneurosis Be Tested Retrospectively? -- 9. The Method Of Free Association And The Future Appraisal Of Psychoanalysis -- 10. Critique Of Freud's Final Defense Of The Probative Value Of Data From The Couch: The Pseudo-Convergence Of Clinical Findings -- 11. Coda On Exegetical Myth-Making In Karl Popper's Indictment Of The Clinical Validation Of Psychoanalysis -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Name Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment setting are themselves epistemically quite suspect.
• Titolo autorizzato: The foundations of psychoanalysis
• ISBN: 1-282-35522-8; 9786612355226; 0-520-90732-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777942803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pittsburghs series in philosophy and history of science.