A criticism of psychoanalysis.

[Psychoanalysis].

First and foremost, the term designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, who coined the term in two publications of 1896: Weitere Bemerkungen über Abwehr-Neuropsychosen (Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defense) and L ́hérédité et l ́étiologie des névroses (Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses), the latter a treatise written in French, in which he depic...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

used in a controversial way. There is a very useful introductory chapter which gives some cautionary advice on pitfalls to be avoided in psychoanalytical literature, such as the fallacy of 'explanation by labelling'. The ideas of other related authors, apart from actual psychoanalysts, are also included (but not Harry Stack Sullivan). Therefore, it might have been useful to give a brief index o...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

'Psychoanalysis' of a Minimal Agent

The Secretary problem is studied with minimal cognitive agents, being a problem that needs memory and judgment. A sequence of values, drawn from an unknown range, is presented; the agent has only one chance to pick a single value as they are presented, and should try to maximize the value chosen. In extension of previous work (Tuci et al. 2002), Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Networks (CTRNN)...