Re: Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

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 jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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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?

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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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