January 12, 2007

We're Assigning the Wrong Freud

By NOAH SHUSTERMAN

The first time I taught Freud was as a graduate student in the mid-1990s. At that time, most undergraduates were old enough to have grown up watching reruns of M*A*S*H*, a show that, once a season or so, gave its viewers a quick lesson in Freudian psychoanalysis. The relevant episodes were based around the psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, a recurring character who would be called in when one of the characters was having psychological difficulties. One would expect people in a war zone to have

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