Frederick Crews
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| - | '''Frederick Crews''' (1933 – 2024) was an [[American essayist]] and [[Literary criticism|literary critic]]. Crews is the author of numerous books, including ''The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of [[Henry James]]'' (1957), ''[[E. M. Forster]]: The Perils of Humanism'' (1962), and ''The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes'' (1966), a discussion of the work of [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]. He received popular attention for ''[[The Pooh Perplex]]'' (1963), a book of [[Satire|satirical]] essays parodying contemporary [[Casebook#Other meanings|casebooks]]. Initially a proponent of [[psychoanalytic literary criticism]], Crews later rejected [[psychoanalysis]], becoming a critic of [[Sigmund Freud]] and his scientific and ethical standards. Crews was a prominent participant in the "[[Freud wars]]" of the 1980s and 1990s, a debate over the reputation, scholarship, and impact on the 20th century of Freud, who founded psychoanalysis. In 2017, he published ''Freud: The Making of an Illusion''. | + | '''Frederick Crews''' (1933 – 2024) was an [[American essayist]] and [[Literary criticism|literary critic]]. |
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| + | Initially a proponent of [[psychoanalytic literary criticism]], Crews later rejected [[psychoanalysis]], becoming a critic of [[Sigmund Freud]] and his scientific and ethical standards. Crews was a prominent participant in the "[[Freud wars]]" of the 1980s and 1990s, a debate over the reputation, scholarship, and impact on the 20th century of Freud, who founded psychoanalysis. In 2017, he published ''[[Freud: The Making of an Illusion]]''. | ||
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| + | Crews has published a variety of [[Skepticism|skeptical]] and [[Rationalism|rationalist]] essays, including book reviews and commentary for ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', on a variety of topics including Freud and [[Recovered-memory therapy|recovered memory therapy]], some of which were published in ''[[The Memory Wars]]'' (1995). | ||
| - | Crews has published a variety of [[Skepticism|skeptical]] and [[Rationalism|rationalist]] essays, including book reviews and commentary for ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', on a variety of topics including Freud and [[Recovered-memory therapy|recovered memory therapy]], some of which were published in ''[[The Memory Wars]]'' (1995). Crews has also published successful [[handbook]]s for college writers, such as ''The Random House Handbook''. | ||
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Frederick Crews (1933 – 2024) was an American essayist and literary critic.
Initially a proponent of psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews later rejected psychoanalysis, becoming a critic of Sigmund Freud and his scientific and ethical standards. Crews was a prominent participant in the "Freud wars" of the 1980s and 1990s, a debate over the reputation, scholarship, and impact on the 20th century of Freud, who founded psychoanalysis. In 2017, he published Freud: The Making of an Illusion.
Crews has published a variety of skeptical and rationalist essays, including book reviews and commentary for The New York Review of Books, on a variety of topics including Freud and recovered memory therapy, some of which were published in The Memory Wars (1995).
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