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Asking For Criticism



             Psychoanalysis Fritz Whittles" "From Veiling and Unveiling Psychotherapy", talks about how Psychoanalysis is experiencing one's own primary functions. He explains how Psychoanalysis cannot be learned from books and must be felt. Whittles states, "We have just admitted that psychoanalysis is not to be learned from books-due to the peculiarities of the primary function which we have described. Likewise it must be acknowledged that psychoanalysis is not a pure science, but an artistic science" (Dilks 365). Wittels, a psychoanalyst himself admits that psychoanalysis is not a real science it is more like an art. He says this because an analyst with little instruction can obtain good analytic results, while analysts who have gone into a deep study of psychoanalysis come out with an uncertain result. .
             Since there are many arguments that psychoanalysis is not a science, it leaves the whole topic of Psychoanalysis and Freud wide open for criticism. Janet Malcolm-a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of book Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession and The Purloined Clinic-is a journalist and active critic in the circle of psychoanalysis.
             In Malcolm's essay Dora, from her book The Purloined Clinic ,she reviews a collection of essays on the Dora case. She says, "the chief subject of the psychoanalytic dialogue is not the patient's repressed memories but the analyst's vacation"(Dilks 421). When a patient goes to see a psychoanalyst the patient's repressed memories are not the main topic. It is the analyst who goes off on conclusions of there own from hearing a little piece of the patients lives. It is as if the analyst makes up the reason for a patients behavior from the bit of past experience explained.
             Malcolm also makes another point that "Psychoanalysis is the wary "ultimately weary" exanimation by patient and analyst of the patient's behavior toward the analyst" (Dilks 421).


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