Why Freud Was Wrong
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Richard Webster's second book is Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis. It begins with A Note to the Reader, in which Webster wrote that his ultimate goal is, "...to interpret his [Freud's] beliefs and his personality in order that we may better understand our own culture, our own history, and indeed, our own psychology. It is to this constructive attempt to analyse the nature and sources of Freud's mistakes that my title primarily refers." Webster maintained in the Prologue that, "...perhaps the clearest evidence that Freud did not understand us is the fact that we do not understand Freud."
In the first chapter, From Caul to Cocaine, Webster deals with Freud's personality and motivations, writing: "If we are to have any chance of understanding Freud's inner biography we need to consider in some detail what lay behind his appetite for fame, and ask to what extent Freud's compulsive need for fame may have engendered his psychological theories rather than, as is normally assumed, his theories generating his fame by their own profundity and intellectual acuity."
