Against Freud

Todd Dufresne is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Lakehead University. He is the author of Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context (Stanford, 2000) and Killing Freud.

• Contents Preface xxx Introduction: The Revised Life and Work of Sigmund Freud1 1."The Man Who Was Analyzed by Freud": Joseph Wortis on Freud, Freudians, and Social Justice000 Interviewed by Todd Dufresne 2.An American Woman in Freud's Vienna: Esther Menaker on Freudianism and Her Analysis with Anna Freud000 Interviewed by Todd Dufresne 3.Edward Shorter's Deflections on Medicine, History, and Psychoanalysis000 Interviewed by Todd Dufresne 4.Psychoanalysis and Pseudoscience: Frank J. Sulloway Revisits Freud and His Legacy000 Interviewed by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen 5.Truth, Science, and the Failures of Psychoanalysis: Frederick Crews Reveals Why He Became a Freud Skeptic000 Interviewed by Todd Dufresne 6.Freud and Interpretation: Frank Cioffi and Allen Esterson Discuss Freud's Legacy000 Interviewed by Todd Dufresne 7.Schreber, Seduction, and Scholarship: Han Isra'ls on Idiots, Lunatics, and the Psychopathology of Freud Scholars000 Interviewed by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Sonu Shamdasani 8.Suggestion, Hypnosis, and the Critique of Psychoanalysis: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen's "Return to Delboeuf"000 Interviewed by Todd Dufresne 9.Freud, Parasites, and the "Culture of Banality": Todd Dufresne Speaks of Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Theory000 Interviewed by Antonio Greco Suggested Readings000 References000 Index000

"Todd Dufresne is the leading student of the Freud Wars of recent vintage. In his fascinating new book he assembles interviews with some of the leading Warriors, among them Frank Sulloway, Frederick Crews, and Edward Shorter. Dufresne himself is a Freud revisionist, but a judicious and learned one." - Paul Robinson (Stanford University) "A great deal of fascinating material is presented, little known outside the ranks of specialists." - Metapsychology "This is a fascinating work. Dufresne has taken a complex problem of great importance to contemporary culture and made it into a highly accessible volume that holds the reader's interest throughout." - Joel Paris (McGill University) "Against Freud makes a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarship by articulating the "revisionist" reading of psychoanalysis in an easily accessible volume." - H-German