Frederick Crews Books
Unauthorized Freud
Over the past thirty years, a revolution has occurred in the study of Sigmund Freud and his brainchild, psychoanalysis. The Freud of legend - the lonely scientific pioneer who steeled himself to pl...
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Postmodern Pooh
A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex Thirty-seven years ago, a slim parody of academic literary criticism called The Pooh Perplex became...
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The Memory Wars
By Bernard L. Pacella, Marcia Cavell, Allen Esterson, Morris N. Eagle, Mortimer Ostow, Frederick C. Crews, Matthew Hugh Erdelyi, Herbert S. Peyser, Robert R. Holt, Penelope, David D. Olds, Harold P. Blum, Lester Luborsky, James Hopkins
In 1993 and 1994, The New York Review of Books published two tenaciously argued essays by Frederick Crews attacking Freudian psychoanalysis and its aftermath in the so-called recovered memory movem...
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