Frederick Campbell Crews (February 20, 1933 – June 21, 2024) was an American essayist and literary critic. Professor of English at the University of California...

Perplex is a 1963 book by Frederick Crews that includes essays on Winnie-the-Pooh as a satire of literary criticism. Crews published a sequel in 2001...

Society was the first of Erikson's books to become popular. The critic Frederick Crews calls the work "a readable and important book extending Freud's developmental...

Legacy in Dispute is a 1995 book that reprints articles by the critic Frederick Crews critical of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and recovered-memory...

psychoanalysis is now generally considered discredited, according to author Frederick Crews who stated, "if you consult psychology faculties in top American universities...

Press, 1971. Crews, Frederick. The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute. New York: The New York Review of Books, 1995. Crews, Frederick. Unauthorized...

field may be misleading. Many crews had secondary or temporary addresses in Southampton, which they gave when signing the crew list, and others may have only...

Princeton, New Jersey. His papers are held at Princeton University. Frederick Crews parodied Blackmur as "P. R. Honeycomb" in his 1963 book of satirical...

commonly had memories and fantasies of childhood seduction. According to Frederick Crews, critics hold that these were more likely to have been constructs that...

satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling...

The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet to explain Taoism. Similarly, Frederick Crews wrote essays about the Pooh books in abstruse academic jargon in The...

was untestable and therefore not scientific. In 1975 literary critic Frederick Crews began a decades-long campaign against the scientific credibility of...

totally without hidden significance as anything written." In 1963 Frederick Crews published The Pooh Perplex, a satire of literary criticism that contains...

memory retrieval in the book. Crews wrote that The Assault on Truth was a naive work that made Masson a celebrity. Crews maintained that Masson had failed...

2005) John Colmer, E. M. Forster – The personal voice (London, 1975) Frederick Crews, E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (Textbook Publishers, 2003)...

The book has also provoked a negative reaction from creationists; Frederick Crews writes that Darwin's Dangerous Idea "rivals Richard Dawkins's The Blind...

Martin "Cruz" (William) Smith (Class of 1960), novelist (Gorky Park) Frederick Crews, literary critic, University of California, Berkeley professor, and...

(b. 1950) 2023 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician (b. 1929) 2024 – Frederick Crews, American essayist and literary critic (b. 1933) Christian feast day:...

post-structuralism in Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972). Frederick Crews writes that when they "indicted Lacanian psychoanalysis as a capitalist...

thought plays a critical role in both scene and sequel. According to Frederick Crews, it is traditional and useful to think of essays as falling into four...

Civilization more reductively political and less stimulating. The critic Frederick Crews argued that Marcuse's proposed liberation of instinct was not a real...

is already proving to be an historic act of depassment." The critic Frederick Crews wrote that when Deleuze and Guattari "indicted Lacanian psychoanalysis...

"Simon Lacerous") and Scrutiny (as "Thumbscrew") were satirized by Frederick Crews in the chapter "Another Book to Cross off your List" of his lampoon...

psychoanalytical community. A few months later, the critic and academic Frederick Crews reviewed A Most Dangerous Method and other books on Freud, using the...

Critic Frederick Crews considered the book part of a body of research demonstrating that Freud "was misled by his drive toward heroic fame." Crews wrote...

thing was lighthearted - nothing but a joke", but others, including Frederick Crews, saw it as an "apparent fraud", because Gay did not initially make...

the problem of the nature of alienation remained valid. The critic Frederick Crews writes that in History and Class Consciousness, Lukács "made a fatefully...

Hogarth Press. pp. 5–149. Wolpe, Joseph; Rachman, Stanley (1998). Frederick Crews (ed.). Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. Penguin Books...

in some of these blasted allegories." 20th century literary critic Frederick Crews noted that the story, similar to other Hawthorne tales like "The Birth-Mark"...

and not by the whim of the institution's temporal needs. The critic Frederick Crews called Young Man Luther "one of the most challenging books that attempt...