Article: Freud's Wishful Dream Book.

Welsh, Alexander. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. xi + 146 pp. $19.95--Alexander Welsh is a literary critic, not a philosopher; nevertheless, his short, gracefully written study of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams should be of considerable interest to many philosophers.

Welsh's first and last chapters examine whether The Interpretation of Dreams (and, more broadly, psychoanalysis altogether) can be considered scientific. Welsh concludes that they cannot: he notes instances in which Freud's assertions of universal causality are not proven by the limited evidence he cites, points to others where Freud ignores rules for interpretation that ...

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