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Précis of The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Adolf Grünbaum
Adolf Grünbaum
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Departments of Philosophy, Psychiatry and History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260
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Abstract

This book critically examines Freud's own detailed arguments for his major explanatory and therapeutic principles, the current neorevisionist versions of psychoanalysis, and the hermeneuticists' reconstruction of Freud's theory and therapy as an alternative to what they claim was a “scientistic” misconstrual of the psychoanalytic enterprise. The clinical case for Freud's cornerstone theory of repression – the claim that psychic conflict plays a causal role in producing neuroses, dreams, and bungled actions – turns out to be ill-founded for two main reasons: (a) Even if clinical data were valid, the method of free association has failed to support the psychoanalytic theory of unconscious motivation; (b) Clinical data tend in any case to be artifacts of the analyst's self-fulfilling expectations, thus losing much of their evidential value. The hypothesis that psychoanalytic treatment is in reality a placebo poses a serious challenge to the assumption that insight is a key causal factor when therapy is successful. This challenge has yet to be met by psychoanalysts. Similar conclusions undermine the neorevisionist versions of psychoanalysis. The most influential hermeneuticists, on the other hand, are shown to have imposed an alien philosophy on psychoanalysis, partly through their reliance on gross misconceptions of the natural sciences. Karl Popper's criticism of the Freudian corpus as empirically untestable has misjudged its evidential weaknesses, which are more subtle. If there exists empirical evidence for the principal psychoanalytic doctrines, it cannot be obtained without well-designed extraclinical studies of a kind that have for the most part yet to be attempted.

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dream interpretationexplanationFreudhermeneuticsneurosisphilosophy of scienceplacebopsychoanalysispsychopathologyrepression
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 217 - 228
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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