Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront A Legend

Ed Frederick Crews

Viking Press, £20, pp 301

ISBN 0 670 87221 0

Freud 2000

Ed Anthony Elliott

Polity Press, £13.95, pp 308

ISBN 0 7456 1909 6

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It started in the 1970s. At first, the outcome seemed unpredictable. The latest high tech weapons pitched against a wily adversary with mysterious weapons of unknown lethality. But in the end the result was clear. Repeated attacks by Roazen, Ellenberger, Swales, Sulloway, Cioffi, Masson, and others put the issue beyond doubt. Before the end it was almost like a turkey shoot. Fatefully, perhaps, the victors did not press home their advantage to the full. They withdrew, leaving the defeated analysts …