Sigmund Freud and B. F. Skinner are often seen as psychology's polar opposites. It seems this view is fallacious. Indeed, Freud and Skinner had many things in common, including basic assumptions shaped by positivism and determinism. More important, Skinner took a clear interest in psychoanalysis and wanted to be analyzed but was turned down. His views were influenced by Freud in many areas, suc...

morrison’s song of solomon could be viewed as a paragon of trauma fiction. since no narrative of trauma can be told in a linear way, morrison tries to depict the overwhelming power of trauma through a non-linear narrative, episodic delivery, and flashbacks. accordingly, the readers are compelled to concoct the disjointed and fragmented memories in order to solve the riddle of the text, in which...

The last phase of the life and work of Sigmund Freud 1919-1939, is described with love, devotion, and meticulous care, by his disciple, our own Ernest Jones. The progress and misfortune, the fame and suffering, the last years in Vienna and London, are described in the early chapters with historical reviews of his contributions in Part II, extracts and notes on the cancerous disease from which h...