%0 Journal Article
%T Clinical Reasoning, Gr¨šnbaum, and FreudĄ¯s Ą°Cleverest DreamerĄą Dream Interpretation
%A Michael T. Michael
%J Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
%@ 1941-2460
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0003065119846487
%X The philosopher Adolf Gr¨šnbaum has repeatedly criticized FreudĄ¯s reasoning, claiming that much of it is overtly fallacious. One such criticism that has gone without reply concerns FreudĄ¯s controversial response to the counterwish objection to his theory of dreams, that the reason some dreams appear to represent the frustration of a wish rather than the fulfillment of one is that they actually represent the dreamerĄ¯s wish to prove Freud wrong. Gr¨šnbaum contends that in giving such a response Freud commits several glaring fallacies. But Gr¨šnbaumĄ¯s analysis is mistaken and misrepresents FreudĄ¯s thought. Contrary to Gr¨šnbaumĄ¯s interpretation of FreudĄ¯s reasoning as deductive, this reasoning is best construed as a form of Ą°inference to the best explanation.
%K Adolf Gr¨šnbaum
%K Sigmund Freud
%K counterwish dreams
%K inference to the best explanation
%K commonsense psychology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003065119846487