He made light of academic criticism with help from the Hundred Acre Woods, and spent years challenging the legacy and impact of Sigmund Freud.
Frederick Crews, who brought a heady combination of research, wit and scholarly vinegar to his literary criticism and essays, skewering trends in academic writing and relentlessly challenging the legacy of Sigmund Freud, died June 21 at a hospitalHis wife, Elizabeth Crews, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause.
“That’s what really engages me: the abdication of common sense by people who have been given every opportunity to educate themselves in rational principles, but who consider rationality itself to be old hat,” Fascinated by Freud’s writings on the complexity of the human psyche and the role of the unconscious mind, Dr. Crews had applied a psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism at the outset of his career, including in a 1966 study of author Nathaniel Hawthorne. But over the next decade, he soured on psychoanalysis, concluding that Freud had used circular reasoning and misrepresented the outcome of his cases while founding a “respectable and entrenched pseudoscience.
Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist and memory expert at the University of California at Irvine, credited Dr. Crews with helping turn the tide against recovered-memory therapy, which“We were in the trenches together,” Loftus said of her and Dr. Crews’s campaign in “the memory wars,” a term he used as the title of a 1995 book.
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