Wollheim on Freud

Cioffi, Frank

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“…: 214), but, as we have seen, elsewhere there are passages which imply that the 'memories' generally consisted of fragmentary ideas or images from which Freud reconstructed the fully-fledged sexual scenes; as Toews puts it: 'The seduction scenes were laboriously constructed from indirect and fragmentary evidence' (1991: 511 n. 12). Similarly, Schimek concludes that 'the knowledge of [the] original trauma, whether an unconscious memory or fantasy, was based on Freud's interpretation and reconstruction; it was not directly revealed by the patient' (1987: 960).5 (Cioffi [1972(Cioffi [ , 1974 had long before reached the same conclusion. )…”

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Jeffrey Masson and Freud's seduction theory: a new fable based on old myths

Esterson¹

1998

History of the Human Sciences

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Jeffrey Masson's version of the seduction theory episode in Freud's early career, as presented in The Assault on Truth (1984), is very plaus ible as a revised account of the traditional story. However, close examination of the seduction theory papers and of other contemporary documents reveals that Freud's later reports of the episode, the foun dation on which Masson builds his case, are false. Some purported his torical events that Masson uses to buttress his case are also shown to be without foundation. The several accounts of the episode Freud gave in his writings are dissected to demonstrate that they are tendentiously misleading and serve to conceal what actually occurred with his patients during the period in question. Some consequences of the widespread acceptance of the traditional account are briefly discussed.

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“…SeeCioffi (1972Cioffi ( , 1974,Macmillan (1977Macmillan ( , 1991,Steele (1982),Thornton (1983),Schimek (1987),Smith (1991),Esterson (1993), Israëls and Schatzman (1993),Scharnberg (1993),and Powell and Boer (1994), all of whom have disputed Freud's retrospective accounts of the episode. 3 Several examples of the analytic technique of reconstruction, i.e.…”

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