Frederick Crews Quotes

• Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

  Frederick Crews

  Phrenology, Reason, Recruit

  Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

  Frederick Crews

  Fate, Giving, Dying

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• The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.

  Frederick Crews

  Recovery, Long, People

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• "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

  Frederick Crews

  Magazines, Literature, World

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