I noticed
that a major element of Crews' critique of Freudianism (in the New York REVIEW
OF BOOKS a few years ago) is that it can't be falsified (following Popper's
criterion). Unfortunately, this seems to apply to _all_ of social science (and
to Popper).
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: andie nachgeborenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews
I've noticed a couple folks herein have roots to Berkeley. Do any of you
know this Crews fellow? Any personal thoughts on him?
* * *Crews is an English prof at Berkeley, best known to me as as withering, merciless, and brilliant critic of psychoanalysis. Apparantly he is a recovering Freudian,a nd decided to make life hell for the remaining Freudians. I am not sure whether he has "radical" politics, but he sure is smart! jks
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