Sigmund Freud

News Image
Letters

Freud’s theories led to useful developments

I read with interest Susan Rosenthal’s article “What’s wrong with Sigmund Freud?” (July/August SR), however, I disagree with her conclusion that all Freud’s ideas need to be rejected by Marxists. Discussion of sexual abuse, and society’s reaction to it, is especially pertinent at this time. The current abuse inquiries reveal the importance of survivors being...
02 September 2015
News Image
Letters

Revolutionary kernel in Freud’s ideas

There are many criticisms that Marxists can — and should — make of psychoanalysis in general and of Sigmund Freud in particular. To dismiss Freud, however, as a “career-building opportunist” as Susan Rosenthal does (“What’s wrong with Sigmund Freud?”, July/August SR) hardly does justice to a thinker whose ideas have engaged the interest of successive...
02 September 2015