You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Dear Sir:
Dr. Saul's distress over my review of Dr. Eissler's book disturbs me considerably since I have only the highest regard for both Dr. Saul and Dr. Roazen. In fact, I wrote Dr. Roazen regarding the Tausk-Eissler issue recently, saying “I admire your courage in pursuing your interests while maintaining objectivity towards Freud…. The need to restrain all criticism or to close off all investigation of either his life or his work can only be detrimental to Freud and the future of psychoanalytic theory and practice.”
Yet, I do believe that Dr. Roazen did go too far out on this issue, and I have stated this in my review. In fact, Dr. Eissler has reproached me regarding this review saying I had misjudged him as well as Freud. In fact I believe my review was just, and appropriately critical of Eissler, Roazen as well as Freud.
I greatly admire Dr. Roazen's work and would hope that he is open to the same scholarly examination as Dr. Saul, myself and Dr. Eissler. I know him as a scholar and an interpreter of Freud with whom I generally agree, while at times disagree. There are many inadequacies and deficiencies in Freud's work