Freud and His Critics : University of California Press : 9780520302501 : 0520302508 : 10 Jul 2018 : Wars against Freud were waged along virtually every front in the 1980s. In Freud and His Critics, Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable detractors, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, and the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum.   Frank Sulloway contends that Freud took most of his ideas from Darwin and other contemporary thinkers?that he was something of a closet biologist. Jeffrey Masson charges that Freud caved in to peer pressure when he abandoned his early seduction theory (which Masson believes was correct) in favor of the theory of infantile sexuality. Adolf Grünbaum impugns Freud's claim to have grounded his ideas?especially the idea of the unconscious?on solid empirical foundations.   Under Robinson's rigorous cross-examination, the evidence of these three accuser