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But the Idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all — idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names…. The high and formal discussions of learned men end oftentimes in disputes about words and names
This paper is primarily philosophic rather than psychoanalytic, although its author is primarily a practising analyst. Philosophy may well be of interest to only a small number of us, and unintelligible to some; but philosophy happens to be of lively interest to me, and I have tried to make it intelligible. In any case philosophers find psychoanalysts interesting, whether we like this or not, and we find ourselves reacting to their critiques. The paper focuses on a single philosophic issue underlying much philosophical debate concerning psychoanalysis: that of induction. This concept is of key importance in the philosophy of science and hence in the question of the scientificity of psychoanalysis, and it is also of central importance to any and all theorizing about internalization, including perception, imitation, identification, and introjection.
More specifically, the paper concerns how Karl Popper and Adolf Grunbaum have discussed the scientificity of psychoanalysis in the