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Nicholson's main topic was the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud. Nicholson read selections from her writings on the connections between physical differences and the individual's psyche. Nicholson spoke mainly about the views on this topic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
Certainly the debate over Freud rages on. His theories of the unconscious and the impact of early-childhood experiences on our adult psyches, his methods of psychoanalysis, his very vocabulary--the id and superego, repression and libido--are the foundation on which modern psychology is built. Yet most practitioners no longer adhere strictly to his approach. Some critics have claimed that his theories were based on shaky science or were contaminated by Freud's mistakes and manipulation of patients. Traditional Freudian analysis is now practiced by only a small cadre, overshadowed by drug therapies and short-term counseling more likely...
...word of the Freud exhibit began to emerge in 1995, one combative anti-Freudian, Peter Swales, a media-savvy Freud scholar and former "business assistant" to the Rolling Stones, charged that the advisory counsel was stacked in favor of the Freudians. He circulated a petition, signed by 50 academics, requesting representation of the "full spectrum of informed opinion" on Freud. Curator Michael Roth, while insisting that he had consulted with a range of scholars from the outset, responded by adding two Freud critics to the advisory panel, even as he questioned the motives of some of the protesters...
Roth says only minimal changes were made in the exhibit, though the catalog now includes several additional essays critical of Freud. Swales, who bridles at suggestions that he wanted the show killed, still thinks "the public has been terribly shortchanged." But another prominent Freud critic, Frederick Crews, who called the original effort a "propaganda campaign" in need of rehauling, says Roth has so far made impressive "good-faith efforts" to create a balance...
...questions Freud asked turn our attention to problems that remain important for us," says Roth. "We didn't try to determine whether the answers he gave were always correct but how his questions influenced the 20th century. I'm not one of those who think we should forget about Freud entirely." Indeed, the whole brouhaha shows how difficult it is for everyone to forget about him. "The passion over this topic is amazing," says Ingrid Scholz-Strasser of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. "For a dead science, it seems pretty lively...