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The Freud Wars
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Routledge (2005-05-19)
ISBN: 158391711X
EAN: 9781583917114
Dewy Decimal #: 150.195
Paperback: 210 pages
Edition: 1
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An accessible and thought-provoking study
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-05-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I approached this book with some trepidation, having always found the abstractions of philosophical dialogue difficult to absorb. But my mind was set at rest by the clear incisive style of the introduction, where Lavinia Gomez sets out the issues and parameters of her book. In exploring the apparently contradictory dual physical and mental strands of Freud's thinking, she herself arrives at a clever fusion in the concept of the `psychical'. Although the original sources she has chosen to illustrate different solutions to the problem by other thinkers are by no means always an easy read, her expostion of them, in brief, clear sentences is always intelligible. In fact in this way she enabled me to disagree with her own position and to incline rather towards the views of the German philosopher Habermas, though, as she so clearly points out, on his cultural foundations the universality of psychoanalysis is diminished. I may not have arrived at the same destination as Lavinia Gomez, but I valued being nudged along an interesting and enjoyable journey of dispute. This is a book which would be of interest to anyone concerned about the origins and future of psychoanalysis and not just to those with a philosophical turn of mind.
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