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What Erdelyi has repressed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Frederick Crews
Frederick Crews*
Affiliation:
Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720–1030
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fredc@berkeley.edu
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Abstract:

Erdelyi's “unified theory of repression” attempts to rehabilitate psychoanalytic doctrine by exaggerating its compatibility with the findings of cognitive science. In addition, Erdelyi treats Freud's writings as holy writ, any portion of which can be quoted to prove a point. He also relies on a long-discredited account of Freud's “seduction theory” and ignores important links between Freudian assumptions and our recent recovered memory movement.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 516 - 517
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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