Volume 32, Number 1 · January 31, 1985
Putting Freud to the Test
By Jonathan Lieberson
The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique
by Adolf Grünbaum
University of California Press, 310 pp., $16.95
Freud thought that he was the founder of a science. In one of his later papers, he wrote that psychoanalysis is 'a part of the mental science of psychology.'[1] But his detractors, a number of whom have lately mounted several sensational efforts to discredit his character, have contended that he did nothing of the kind. For some of them, he is at best a gifted writer whose eloquence concealed the defective reasoning behind his theories and who properly received the Goethe Prize for literature instead of the Nobel Prize for medicine.
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