Book Review: Science and Psychoanalysis — Volume V

Mind, psychoanalysis and science

This collection of papers, like the previous two publications in the series, covers a wide and eclectic range of topics documenting aspects of the development of western medicine in Australia. Such diversity, in methodology as well as content, is not surprising given the open-ended theme and the fact that the conference at which these papers were presented provided a forum for anyone "intereste...

Science and psychoanalysis

While psychoanalysts claim that psychoanalysis is a science, many external critics denounce it as an unscientific system of untested (and in a Popperian view: untestable) beliefs. In part, this may be the effect of what Freud called the “resistance against psychoanalysis” (which cannot be cured simply with arguments). Beside that, however, the discussion of the epistemological status of psychoa...

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Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis

the contemporary intellectual world is that between cognitive science and cultural theory. Cognitive scientists are committed to the idea that we can follow the conceptions of the mind to their zero level of the brain. As a result, speculation about our conceptions on their own terms will always mislead us into false problems. These are the problems that preoccupy cultural theorists. For the la...

Book Review: Cryptonomicon, Volume 46, Number 11

Of course, cryptography is necessary for a project such as the data haven, and, as the title would imply, discussions of codes and ciphers run throughout the book. Mathematicians with a background in cryptanalysis might be especially interested in a new output-feedback mode stream cipher formally introduced in this book for the first time. The code is described in greater detail in an appendix ...