Psychoanalysis is dying in campus psych departments but flourishing in just about every other discipline, reports today’s New York Times. Among those: the English department, and the Times quotes UVA English prof Mark Edmundson on the place of Sigmund Freud in the pantheon. "Freud to me is a writer comparable to Montaigne and Samuel Johnson and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, writers who take on the really big questions of love, justice, good government and death," said Edmundson, who has gotten a lot of attention (including from C-VILLE) for his recent book The Death of Sigmund Freud.
 Mark Edmundson, UVA english prof, has no problem loving Freud, even if psych departments are throwing over psychoanalysis. |
