Counselling and psychotherapy, History and philosophy

Freud - the ambition theory

Chloe Smith turns the tables on Freud to give her personal analysis of his motives.

18 October 2000

THROUGHOUT his life and until the present day, Freud has been both applauded and criticised by a catalogue of scholars and numerous dinner party guests. Freud wanted fame and he has got it. The question that this article addresses, however, is whether psychoanalysis has had to pay the price for Freud's single-mindedness.

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