Originally appeared in the Boston Globe,
By Harvey Blume
When I phoned Peter Kramer recently to talk about his new
book, "Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind," he said the volume
represented his "most negative" encounter yet in a "lifelong
series of encounters" with the work of Sigmund Freud. Given Kramer's knack
for summing up and helping to shape the zeitgeist -- as demonstrated by his
1993 bestseller "Listening To Prozac" -- a negative report from him
is not good news for 21st-century Freudianism.
