Between Freud and Popper
Between Freud and Popper

Summary/Abstract: Popper criticized Freud severely for his claim that his theory is scientific even though it is untestable and for his ad hoc alteration of his refutable – and refuted – theory of dreams as means for the prolongation of sleep. Popper’s admiration for Freud is unnoticed, largely due to the science-oriented obscurantism that denies any intellectual value to anything outside science. Freud’s discovery of intellectual content in non-science and even in the plastic arts refutes this obscurantism. On this Freud and Popper are allies against most of today’s analytic philosophers.

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