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Explanation in Psychoanalysis and History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Edward H. Madden
Edward H. Madden*
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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Abstract

A number of authors recently have pointed out what they think are enlightening similarities between psychoanalysis and history. In stressing such similarities they are usually trying to justify their own particular characterization of psychoanalysis. I show wherein I think these characterizations go wrong and at the same time try my own hand at clarifying the nature of psychoanalytic propositions.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 1966, pp. 278 - 286
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Copyright © 1966 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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(Read at the Symposium on Psychoanalysis and History at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Western Division, Chicago, April, 1965).

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