The Successful Error: A Critique of Freudian Psychoanalysis

by Rudolf Allers

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Author: Rudolf Allers

Publisher: Cluny Media

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ISBN 10: 195097040X
ISBN 13: 978-1950970407

The Successful Error is an incisive critique, by one of Sigmund Freud’s first followers, of the doctrine and methodology of Freudian psychoanalysis. While many critics of the Freudian school fault it for being contradictory to morals or common sense, Rudolf Allers asserts that such arguments ultimately obscure the fundamental issue. Psychoanalysis is a science; consequently, any criticisms of it must use scientific tools—logic, experimentation, measurement. By such methods, the true nature of psychoanalysis reveals itself as a mass of self-contradictions and inconsistencies which is wholly incompatible with any philosophy save its own. First published in 1940, The Successful Error stands as a spirited achievement of critical balance, repudiating the fundamental misconceptions and false premises of the Freudian school while also acknowledging the achievements and insights of its flawed yet remarkable founder.

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The Successful Error: A Critique of Freudian Psychoanalysis