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How can we know if psychoanalytic claims are true? Precis of epistemology

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  • Constantin Preda

    (Goldsmith College University of London, United Kingdom)

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In a letter addressed to his friend Wilhelm Fliess, Freud declared: "I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort" (Masson, 1985). Despite this sincere declaration, it can be said that Freud was heavily influenced by the positivist approach to science prevalent in the academia of his age, and thus attempted to give a scientific foundation to his new theory of the human mind by founding it on innumerable observations and clinical information.

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  • Constantin Preda, 2011. "How can we know if psychoanalytic claims are true? Precis of epistemology," BlackSea Journal of Psychology, Ovidius University of Constanta, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, vol. 2(1), pages 46-50, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tec:bseaps:v:2:y:2011:i:1:p:46-50
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    psychoanalytics; epistemology; freud;
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