Word: freudism
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...study, the latter containing a couch covered with an Oriental rug, remain largely as he left them. Some visitors last week may have come fresh from seeing a Channel 4 TV documentary put together by Peter Swales, another persistent critic of Freud, titled Bad Ideas of the 20th Century: Freudism. If so, their interest in Freud memorabilia seemed undiminished. Michael Molnar, the Museum's research director and an editor of Freud's diaries, acknowledges that psychoanalysis is being challenged by new drug treatments and advances in genetic research. "But," he argues, "Freud is in better shape than Marx...
...influences of Christianity, Marxism, and Freudism have "withered away," he said. Even interest in Surrealism is fading fast, with only Dadaism enjoying current favor...
...book is both a panegyric of Professor Freud and Freudism. Besides magnifying Freud's effects on psychology, philosophy, art, drama, education and law, all certainly profound, Dr. Wittels begins his gloria in excelsis by linking Goethe and Freud. He ends with Einstein and Freud. The Goethe-Freud link is generally justifiable. Both men began as empirical investigators and ended as rationalizing scientists. And it was a Goethe essay which transformed Dr. Freud's early disinclination to medicine into a probing interest. The Einstein-Freud theory shows that Dr. Wittels has knowledge of Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington...
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