Re: Ooh! Crews’s emails to Newsweek author

Posted by special_k on April 7, 2006, at 9:47:12

In reply to Ooh! Crews’s emails to Newsweek author, posted by pseudoname on April 4, 2006, at 19:36:35

mmm.
is freud dead?
depends who you ask i guess...
for all the psychoanalysts out there... i guess freud is their founding father just like descartes is the founding father of modern philosophy or frege is the founding father of analytic philosophy or whatever.
so there is a kind of gratitude someone got the field up off the ground but most will agree that things have moved along a hell of a lot since then.
so...
methinks cognitive neuropsychology (and psychology in general - social psych and evolutionary psych and attribution theory etc etc) is outstripping psychoanalysis with respect to explaning (and predicting) behaviour...
there is also good progress in philosophy of mind (IMO)
i wondered if the explanandum was different...
but i dunno.
so freud... was a founding father... but even within psychoanalysis his influence appears to be waning...
and thats good IMO because if a field (or anything really) isn't evolving...
then it will become obsolete.
onward ho.

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