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It's a hundred years since Sigmund Freud, the founder of

psychoanalysis, a term which he coined, published The Interpretation of Dreams.

Six years after his death, Freud's influence and the influence of that book has been felt in

the 20th century and everything from the arts history and anthropology to of course

psychology and even science. But at the end of the 20th century has psychoanalysis

become too fractured and too

insistent on privileging the past over the present to go forward into the future.

Joining me a Dr. Juliet Mitchell, one of Britain's foremost feminist

thinkers and theorists, practicing psychoanalyst

she is a fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and is in the Department of

Political and Social Sciences there. How many works,

psychoanalysis and feminism to who's afraid of feminism and renowned for their challenges to

orthodoxy even the central tenets of Orthodox feminism itself.

Adam Phillips has been described as our leading proponent of the validity and vitality of the Freudian ideal.

He's been described as an anti-Froyian psychoanalyst who's fascinated by the literary and the

ambiguous. His collection of essays on psychoanalysis, the latest being the beast in the nursery, published

last year, have established his reputation as the leading writer in his field.

He said, psychoanalysis is only just beginning to get the kind of public scrutiny the intelligent

hostility needs and that will allow people to decide both the people who can

afford it and the people who can't whether it's worth keeping.

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