Dispatches from the Freud Wars

Psychoanalysis and Its Passions

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by John Forrester

Harvard University Press

Due/Published October 1998, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0674539613

New in Paper!

Culture wars, science wars, Nietzsche's Corp(s) and now . . . THE FREUD WARS (was the Janet Malcolm thing many years back one of the skirmishes?) in which John Forrester "delves into disputes over Freud's dead body! OK, enough sarcasm. My apologies. Forrester approaches Freud from the perspectives of the history and philosophy of science and has written often on Freud and psychoanalysis. Here he gives us a sense of the ethical surprises and epistemological riddles that a century of psychoanalytical debate has often obscured. He explores dreams, ethics political theory, and that which drives psychoanalysis as a scientific movement. For Forrester the quarrels over Freud and his theories do not merely define a fashionable site for late twentieth century debate, but have functioned for the better part of the last hundred years as an index of the cultural and scientific climate of modern times. Freud is a barometer for understanding how we conduct our different lives.