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Is Psychoanalysis a Science?
Freud saw psychoanalysis as a natural science, but his critics deny that it is scientific. This is a complex issue, but it is worth exploring in detail. Two points seem hard to dispute. Firstly, it is clear that psychoanalysis aims to be a truth-focused undertaking. It puts forward explanations of why people do what they Continue reading
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Putting Love at the Heart of Psychoanalysis: Suttie’s Critique of Freud
Ian Dishart Suttie was a Scottish psychoanalyst who died in 1935, shortly after completing a powerful critique of Freud, entitled The Origins of Love and Hate. Whereas Freud presents the individual as caught between a hostile external world and a maelstrom of internal excitations, Suttie claims that we are born with a need for love Continue reading
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How will we know when the Singularity occurs?
Elon Musk has predicted that the Singularity – the moment when computers become more intelligent than humans – could occur as soon as 2029. But how will we know that this has happened? What would make us conclude that computers had surpassed us? There is no doubt that they can do lots of things better Continue reading
Wittgenstein and Freud 