Critiques of Freud's The Wolfman Case Study?

[lukasecho]

Currently reading the Penguin Sigmund Freud Reader and I just don't really know what to make of this Wolf Man Case Study? Why is this significant, Is my main question I guess. What am I supposed to get out of this case study?

Sigmund Freud - "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" (german ed 1918) [the "Wolfman"]

- Does Lacan write anything about this case study in particular in reference to Freud?
- Does this figure in the later post-Freudian uses of Freud?
- Is there anything around that puts this essay into perspective / significance? or covers why it is included in the Penguin Reader?

[WanderingLands]

Currently reading the Penguin Sigmund Freud Reader and I just don't really know what to make of this Wolf Man Case Study? Why is this significant, Is my main question I guess. What am I supposed to get out of this case study?

Sigmund Freud - "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" (german ed 1918) [the "Wolfman"]

- Does Lacan write anything about this case study in particular in reference to Freud?
- Does this figure in the later post-Freudian uses of Freud?
- Is there anything around that puts this essay into perspective / significance? or covers why it is included in the Penguin Reader?

If you really want to find answers to those questions, just read on yourself and develop yourself through whatever means.

[lukasecho]

thanks a lot of your help!?

Read on...

-great. really useful. Thats what I'm trying to get pointers to do. Who / where is this case study discussed.

...anyway according to Wikipedia:

The case forms a central part of the second chapter of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, titled "One or Several Wolves?" In it, they repeat the accusation made in Anti-Oedipus that Freudian analysis is unduly reductive and that the unconscious is actually a "machinic assemblage". They argue that wolves are a case of the pack or multiplicity and that the dream was part of a schizoid experience.

There are some other criticisms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Pan ... rpretation

[NielsBohr]

-WanderingLand is right, the answer is often in the question.

-Maybe try Carl Gustav Jung, who overtook his master.

[HexHammer]

The Wolf Man really shows the incompetent side of Freud, as he liked to jump to conclusions and even dared to declare the patient 100% cured.

Sure Freud really changed the landscape of shrinking, but he also in many other aspect was disasterously bad.