TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grünbaum,Adolf
TI  - The foundations of psychoanalysis: a philosophical critique 
T2  - Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science
SN  - 0520050169
AV  - BF173 .G76 1984
U1  - ARCH YNDC 150.19 G888F 19
KW  - Freud, Sigmund,
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Freudian Theory
KW  - Psychoanalytic Theory
KW  - Theories of Freud, Sigmund - Philosophical perspectives
N1  - Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 287-296; Introduction: Critique of the hermeneutic conception of psychoanalytic theory and therapy -- The exegetical legend of "scientistic self-misunderstanding" -- Critique of Habermas's philosophy of psychoanalysis -- Critique of Ricoeur's philosophy of psychoanalysis -- Are repressed motives reasons but not causes of human thought and conduct? -- Critique of George S. Klein's version of hermeneutic psychoanalysis -- The collapse of the scientophobic reconstruction of Freud's theory; Part I: The clinical method of psychoanalytic investigation: pathfinder or pitfall? -- Is Freud's theory empirically testable? -- Did Freud vindicate his method of clinical investigation? -- Part II: The cornerstone of the psychoanalytic edifice: is the Freudian theory of repression well founded? -- Appraisal of Freud's arguments for the repression etiology of the psychoneuroses -- Examination of the psychoanalytic theory of slips -- of memory, the tongue, ear, and pen -- Repressed infantile wishes as instigators of all dreams: critical scrutiny of the compromise model of manifest dream content -- Appraisal of Freud's further arguments for the emergence of unadulterated repressions under "free" association -- Remarks on post-Freudian defenses of the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis -- Can the repression etiology of psychoneurosis be tested retrospectively?; Part III: Epilogue -- The method of free association and the future appraisal of psychoanalysis -- Critique of Freud's final defense of the probative value of data from the couch: the pseudo-convergence of clinical findings -- Coda on exegetical myth-making in Karl Popper's indictment of the clinical validation of psychoanalysis
ER  -