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Why Sigmund Freud still cannot be dismissedCover of ‘Freud’ by Elisabeth Roudinesco. (No Credit)
FREUD
By Élisabeth Roudinesco
Of the three (mostly) 19th-century figures who loomed over 20th-century thought—Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud—many scholars would say only the first retains his relevance. Marx is probably a lost cause, since even the Chinese Communist Party has gone capitalist. As for Freud, his star has waned in recent decades, in an era allergic to grand theories but much attracted to pill-popping and brain scans to fix whatever ails our minds. Derided as a poor scientist, Freud is now less disputed than ignored.
He shouldn’t be, according to this compelling biography. French psychoanalyst and historian Roudinesco, a profound if clear-eyed admirer of Freud, argues there’s good reason why psychoanalytic terminology—Freudian slips, the power of unconscious sex and death drives, ego, id and free association—is still commonplace in pop culture, and why Freud remains an enormous influence in literature, film and art…

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Why Sigmund Freud still cannot be dismissedCover of ‘Freud’ by Elisabeth Roudinesco. (No Credit)
FREUD
By Élisabeth Roudinesco
Of the three (mostly) 19th-century figures who loomed over 20th-century thought—Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud—many scholars would say only the first retains his relevance. Marx is probably a lost cause, since even the Chinese Communist Party has gone capitalist. As for Freud, his star has waned in recent decades, in an era allergic to grand theories but much attracted to pill-popping and brain scans to fix whatever ails our minds. Derided as a poor scientist, Freud is now less disputed than ignored.
He shouldn’t be, according to this compelling biography. French psychoanalyst and historian Roudinesco, a profound if clear-eyed admirer of Freud, argues there’s good reason why psychoanalytic terminology—Freudian slips, the power of unconscious sex and death drives, ego, id and free association—is still commonplace in pop culture, and why Freud remains an enormous influence in literature, film and art…

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