When we needed a screwdriver, Freud handed us a crystal ball

65 years after the death of Freud, John Timpane claims that we are all post-Freudians now. "We are leaving the 'hard' aspects of Freud behind: the doctrinaire, systematic judgments; the ego/superego/id apparatus; and the pretense to the status of science". Why? "Because when we needed a screwdriver, Freud handed us a crystal ball. His product didn't fit the market".

Judge for yourself - Hail and Farewell to Sigmund Freud (The Mercury News, 19/9/04)

Daphne Merkin, in reviewing "Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis" by Eli Zaretsky (The New York Times, 5/9/04), says that "psychoanalysis, having incorporated some of his ideas and rejected others, has in fact moved far beyond him [Freud], while neuroscience - in the form of M.R.I. (or magnetic resonance imaging tests) evidence of unconscious mental processes - has been confirming basic tenets of analytic thought. The final verdict is not in, and as one plain-spoken, assuredly un-Freudian thinker once said, 'It ain't over till it's over.'".