Perhaps the two theories that have been most eclipsed by recent developments are Freudianism and behaviorism. |
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Chris Brand has a review of Freudianism and psychoanalysis in which he gives a good short history of it. |
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I can't think of any theory as broad as Darwinism or Freudianism that could be falsified directly. |
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Critics discovered in Dracula an almost endless source for readings on Freudianism, Marxism and feminism, the depths of which they plumed with gleeful abandon. |
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Marxism was obviously a religion and Freudianism must be taken on faith as its theories were based on bad or no data. |
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And there was the rapid collapse of Freudianism. |
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Fanon's work was a blend of Freudianism, Marxism, and Sartrean existentialism. |
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With Melanie Klein, his mentor, he pioneered the psychoanalytic school of object-relations theory, which by now has largely supplanted orthodox Freudianism as a way to understand a child's earliest experiences of selfhood. |
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This simplification has enabled ambitious bad writers to make reputations as thinkers, and in the movies of the forties it was given a superficial plausibility by popular Freudianism. |
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A fixation on the former leads to crude, mechanistic Freudianism, the latter to egoistic and naive assertions of self-sufficiency. |
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He charges Freudianism with presenting humans in an inherently false, individualistic, asocial, and ahistorial setting. |
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