Freud and the idea of a pseudoscience

• Authors: Frank Cioffi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this essay which comprises one of chapters in Frank Cioffi Freud and the Question of a Pseudoscience (Open Court, Chicago 1998, pp. 115-142) its author, the most harsh and provocative contemporary critic of psychoanalysis, has assembled reasons for concluding that psychoanalysis  is a pseudoscience. What makes this text unique among current offerings is the contrary view about a pseudoscience according to which it is constituted by methodologically defective procedures (in a sense of wilful which encompasses refined self-deception) rather than merely by formally defective theses.

Keywords

EN

psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; pseudoscience

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2007

online

2015-08-07

Contributors

author

Frank Cioffi