Monthly Archives: April 2021

The Rorschach Test

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

Frederick Crews wrote in 2004: Both dreams and Rorschach responses can be “explored” with disastrous effect; think of the role played by dream analysis in recovered memory therapy, and think of Robert Lindner’s suggestion that shock treatment may be indicated … Continue reading →

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Roger’s Version

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

John Updike’s pragmatic embrace of Christianity reminds me of many on the Dissident Right (as well as former Nazis in post-WWII Germany) who take on Christianity as a socially acceptable expression of their traditionalist views. Frederick Crews writes: * Updike’s … Continue reading →

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The Unknown Freud

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

Frederick Crews writes in 1993: * That psychoanalysis, as a mode of treatment, has been experiencing a long institutional decline is no longer in serious dispute. Nor is the reason: though some patients claim to have acquired profound self-insight and … Continue reading →

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The Gnosticism At The Heart Of Freudianism

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

Frederick Crews writes: * a gnostic tendency lay at the very heart of analytic work as the mature Freud conceived it. In drawing on a privately determined symbology to assign thematic meanings to dreams, associations, errors, and symptoms (productions that … Continue reading →

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Darwin

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

Frederick Crews writes in 2001: * Darwin’s contemporaries saw at once what a heavy blow he was striking against piety. His theory entailed the inference that we are here today not because God reciprocates our love, forgives our sins, and … Continue reading →

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