Monday, June 24, 2024

Frederick Crews obituary

A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience. --Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91


...As a young professor at Berkeley, Mr. Crews made a splash in 1963 with “The Pooh Perplex,” a best-selling collection of satirical essays lampooning popular schools of literary criticism of the time
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Essentially, Professor Crews came to regard Freud as a charlatan. ... Professor Crews linked the charges against Mr. Sandusky to another of his notable targets, the recovered memory movement, which took hold in the 1990s and which he saw as stemming from the excesses of psychoanalytic theory.

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“One of his great pleasures in life was skepticism,” Professor Pinsky said. “With vivid glee, he told me about recataloging and organizing the library in the summer camp where he was tennis instructor.That athletic, intellectual young man took pleasure in cataloging the Bible under fiction.” 🀑

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