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Lear, Jonathan. Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life. Fingarette, H. The Self in Transformation: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and the Life of the Spirit. Hook, S. (ed.) Psychoanalysis, Scientific Method, and Philosophy. Cioffi, F. (ed.) Freud: Modern Judgements. It does not comply with that, if Freud’s concept is unscientific, or even false, it can not present us with a basis for the beneficial remedy of neurotic sickness as a result of the relationship between a theory’s reality or falsity and its utility-worth is far from being an isomorphic one. However, the response he encountered was so ferociously hostile that he masked his findings and supplied his idea of the unconscious in its place (see Masson, J. The Assault on Truth). Doubt in regards to the precise occurrence of these seductions was quickly replaced by certainty that it was descriptions about childhood fantasy that had been being supplied. He did in actual fact provide an early seduction concept of neuroses, which met with fierce animosity, and which he quickly withdrew and replaced with the speculation of the unconscious. Levy, D. Freud Among the many Philosophers: The Psychoanalytic Unconscious and Its Philosophical Critics.