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On the Couch with Freud and Kuhn

Dagmar Herzog: Cold War Freud: psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes. Cambridge University Press, 2016, 320pp, £24.99 HB

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Notes

  1. Conant to Kuhn, June 5, 1961, Thomas S. Kuhn papers, MIT archives and special collections (hereafter: TSK-MIT), box 25, folder 53.

  2. See Hufbauer (2012) and Kaiser (2016). Kaiser admits that Freud may have supplemented scientific and philosophical sources; that Freud “further focused [Kuhn’s] attention on individuals’ active construal of the givens of experience” (82).

  3. Kuhn to Professor David Owen, Jan. 6, 1951, TSK-MIT, box 3 folder 10.

  4. Kuhn to Radó, TSK-MIT, box 1 folder 6.

  5. Kuhn to Kubie, March 17, 1955, TSK-MIT, box 25, folder 53, 3.

  6. Kubie, “Psychoneurotic Problems of the American Scientist,” Chicago Review 8(3), 1954, 65–80, 71. This is not among the essays Kuhn specifically mentioned and may not have been among those Kubie sent to Kuhn.

  7. Kuhn to Kubie, March 17, 1955, TSK-MIT, box 25, folder 53, p. 3.

  8. Ibid. p. 5.

  9. Ibid. pp. 5, 6.

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Reisch, G. On the Couch with Freud and Kuhn. Metascience 27, 37–46 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0253-3

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