Samuel Lézé, Freud Wars

Abstract

How can one explain why people have been declaring Freud to be dead and almost buried for the past one hundred years? Indeed, Samuel Leze starts his “biographical chronology” of “anti-Freudian attacks” with the Frederic L. Wells’s 1912 critical essay, “The Interpretation of Dreams”, published over a century ago. What came then were Pierre Janet’s refutations, followed by the waves of critiques – or rather the successive cycles of controversy – which little by little formed the diverse body of...