Carlos Hernandez
Dec22-03, 02:48 AM
Killing Freud: 20th-century culture and the death of psychoanalysis by Todd Dufresne
Disastrous victory of a 20th-century shaman
By Justin Wintle
16 December 2003
Had Freud and his celebrated "talking cure" never happened, would BT still have come up with "It's Good to Talk"? Would the slogan have such ambiguous ring-tones? Post-Freud, the proposition is scarcely one that entices all subscribers. Good to chat, maybe; good to discuss and debate. But by its one-sided definition of "talk", psychoanalysis unsettles.
Complete text at
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=473782
Disastrous victory of a 20th-century shaman
By Justin Wintle
16 December 2003
Had Freud and his celebrated "talking cure" never happened, would BT still have come up with "It's Good to Talk"? Would the slogan have such ambiguous ring-tones? Post-Freud, the proposition is scarcely one that entices all subscribers. Good to chat, maybe; good to discuss and debate. But by its one-sided definition of "talk", psychoanalysis unsettles.
Complete text at
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=473782