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Re: Freud and VN and psychoanalysis
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In a message dated 25/06/2006 16:56:18 GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
writes:
"VN's decades-long crusade against popularized Freudianism", and
"popularized" is a term people often forget to consider while endorsing VN's opinions
about Freud. It appears to me that VN usually directed his invectives against
what falls under the term "Applied Psychoanalysis", not to Psychoanalysis
itself.
I do not think Jansy's argument here is really sustainable. VN explicitly
attacked Freud's dream theory, which Freud himself thought his greatest work,
and the foundation of psychoanalysis proper. He explicitly said he had given
John Shade some of his own hates, and these included Freud. I could go on...
Anthony Stadlen
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