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Document Type
Book Chapter
Department/Program
English
Publication Date
Fall 9-11-2003
Book Title
Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Editor
Helen Small and Trudi Tate
City
New York, NY
First Page
118
Last Page
130
Abstract
At the beginning of the final lecture in Freud's 1933 publication, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Freud declared summarily and triumphantly that psychoanalysis was a science. 'As a specialist science, a branch of psychology ... it is quite unfit to construct a Weltanschauung of its own: it must accept the scientific one.'1 This was a view he continued to stress as his career drew to a close. In 1940, seven years after the lecture on the Weltanschauung, he noted that psychology was ca natural science like any other', asking defiantly: (What else can it be?'2
ISBN
9780199266678
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Recommended Citation
Raitt, S. (2003). Freud’s theory of metaphor: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, nineteenth-century science and figurative language. Helen Small and Trudi Tate (Ed.), Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer (pp. 118-130). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/14
