I get the digest form of TIPS, so you may all be lighting up the Internet with posts on this topic, but here goes:
Yesterday I received my November 11, 2002 _Newsweek_. In it there is an article (p. 50 in the American edition) entitled _What Freud Got Right_. I had a little trouble opening up the article, so hopefully this link will work:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/829644.asp
Anyway, I am having difficulty seeing any confirmation of Freud's theories in the data mentioned. I see some confirmation of the role of drives, which I don't believe are really in question. A sample of the type of "logic" presented in the article: in a discussion of how the ventral tegmental area is involved in "seeking," the article states "To neuropsychologist Mark Solms of University College in London, that sounds very much like libido."
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that it could equally well "confirm" anyone else's work who ever focused on basic drives... I was just in conversation with a colleague who studied Lamarck and mentioned work he did on brain structure and drives, a hundred years before Freud ever published!! So maybe Lamarck was right all along, too >:)
I await your comments...
Esther
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