Daily Archives: April 15, 2021

The Gnosticism At The Heart Of Freudianism

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

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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The Trauma Trap

Frederick Crews writes for the New York Review of Books in 2004: In the 1980s, as McNally relates, day care workers risked prosecution and imprisonment on the coerced testimony of bewildered and intimidated three-year-olds who were prodded to “remember” nonexistent … Continue reading

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