The Memory Wars
Book description
The author's critique of Freudian psychoanalyis and the "recovered memory" movement, first published in 1993 in The New York Review of Books to a storm of controversy, is presented along with twenty-five responses. IP.
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This well-written, tightly-argued little book of 1995 gathers together four feature articles from The New York Review of Books that together represent a watershed moment in âFreud Studies.â For here was the NYRB, a long-standing bastion of psychoanalysis, publishing splashy articles that functioned like a Hollywood expose of Freudâs failings as a man, thinker, and therapist. In truth, Crews was simply giving voice to a ârevisionistâ portrait of Freud that started in earnest in the wake of Jonesâs three-volume âlife and workâ of Freud (1953-57). Best of all: Crews connects it all to the ârecovered memoryâ movement of the 1980sâŚ
From Todd's list on Freud and his legacy.
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