Freudian ‘Science’ won’t go quietly! Professor Cohen considers ‘pondering the tastelessly funny, improbably Freudian coincidence of the centennial of Beyond the Pleasure Principle with a deadly global pandemic.’
Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include The Private Life, 2013, and Not Working: Why we have to stop, 2019
I thought the ‘New Party Line’ on Psychoanalysis was that it was about ‘Jewish Story Telling’ , and or part of the project of ‘Jewish Emancipation’.
Here is link to my essay, that is a review of Adam Phillips ‘Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst’, my title gives the game away! Phillips is both an ideologically focused ‘historian’ and an incompetent apologist.
On ‘Becoming Freud’ : Adam Phillips as incompetent Freudian Apologist/Propagandist. A comment by Philosophical Apprentice
Posted on January 4, 2019
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