Offers a systematic analysis of Freud's theories, examines the effectiveness of the retrospective clinical methods used in psychoanalysis, and discusses free association, dreams, and personality

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Critique of the Hermeneutic Conception of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy

1

(1)

The Exegetical Legend of ``Scientistic Self-Misunderstanding''

2

(7)

Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

9

(34)

Does the Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Therapy Exhibit the ``Causality of Fate''?

9

(6)

Are Nomological Explanations in the Natural Sciences Generically Non-Historical, While Causal Accounts in Psychoanalysis are Historically-Contextual?

15

(6)

Does the Patient Have Privileged Cognitive Access to the Validation or Discreditation of Psychoanalytic Hypotheses?

21

(22)

Critique of Ricoeur's Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

43

(26)

Ricoeur's Truncation of the Purview of Freudian Theory

43

(6)

Are Natural Science Modes of Explanation and Validation Gainsaid in Psychoanalysis By the Pathogenicity of Seduction Fantasies, Or By the Explanatory Role of ``Meaning''?

49

(12)

Does the Theory of Repression Furnish a ``Semantics of Desire''?

61

(6)

Ricoeur's Disposal of ``The Question of Proof in Freud's Theory''

67

(2)

Are Repressed Motives Reasons But Not Causes of Human Thought and Conduct?

69

(14)

Critique of George S. Klein's Version of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis

83

(10)

The Collapse of the Scientophobic Reconstruction of Freud's Theory

93

(2)

Part I. The Clinical Method of Psychoanalytic Investigation: Pathfinder or Pitfall?

95

(78)

Is Freud's Theory Empirically Testable?

97

(30)

Clinical versus Experimental Testability: Statement of the Controversy

97

(7)

The Purported Untestability of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

104

(23)

Did Freud Vindicate His Method of Clinical Investigation?

127

(46)

Are Clinical Confirmations an Artifact of the Patient's Positive ``Transference'' Feelings Toward the Analyst?

130

(5)

Freud's Reliance on the Hypothesized Dynamics of Therapy as a Vindication of his Theory of Unconscious Motivation

135

(24)

Was Freud's Attempted Therapeutic Vindication of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Successful?

159

(14)

Part II. The Cornerstone of the Psychoanalytic Edifice: Is the Freudian Theory of Repression Well Founded?

173

(94)

Appraisal of Freud's Arguments for the Repression Etiology of the Psychoneuroses

177

(13)

Examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Slips---of Memory, the Tongue, Ear, and Pen

190

(26)

Repressed Infantile Wishes as Instigators of All Dreams: Critical Scrutiny of the Compromise Model of Manifest Dream Content

216

(24)

Appraisal of Freud's Further Arguments for the Emergence of Unadulterated Repressions Under ``Free'' Association

240

(6)

Remarks on Post-Freudian Defenses of the Fundamental Tenets of Psychoanalysis

246

(5)

Can the Repression Etiology of Psychoneurosis Be Tested Retrospectively?

251

(16)

Part III. Epilogue

267

(20)

The Method of Free Association and the Future Appraisal of Psychoanalysis

269

(4)

Critique of Freud's Final Defense of the Probative Value of Data from the Couch: The Pseudo-Convergence of Clinical Findings

273

(6)

Coda on Exegetical Myth-Making in Karl Popper's Indictment of the Clinical Validation of Psychoanalysis

279

(8)

Bibliography

287

(10)

Indexes

297

(2)

Name Index

299

(4)

Subject Index

303

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.