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Titled Freud: Biologist of the Mind (Basic Books), this iconoclastic study does not deny Freud's achievement. Says Author Frank J. Sulloway, 32, a historian of science and a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley: "What remains today of Freud's insights and influence ... provides ample testimony to his greatness." But according to Sulloway, who spent seven years on the book, the historical record has been manipulated by Freud's followers to make him appear more original, isolated and heroic than he really...
...untrue, says Sulloway: the notion that infants possessed sexual stirrings was fashionable during the 1890s, even before Freud wrote about it, and the idea that neurotic conflict had a sexual component was also conventional. Indeed, says the author, many of the ideas that Freud synthesized into psychoanalysis had been around for years: among them, such now familiar concepts as the unconscious, the pleasure principle, regression and sublimation. Fliess, a Berlin physician who was Freud's closest friend for years, convinced Freud that all human beings were bisexual, and also offered ideas on the latency period (low sexuality preceding puberty...
...Harvard undergraduates, Frank Sulloway '69, explained recently that the film will examine the influence of South America on Darwin's theory of evolution in terms of people, places, flora, fauna, geological formations and fossil deposits...
...first arriving in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and a seven-hour trip from here, the group discovered that it might have trouble obtaining passage to the Galapagos at the right time and at the right price. At one point, Sulloway said, it appeared they might have to return to Ecuador in December because the Summer schedule, including stops all around the continent, was too tight for an extended wait to get to the islands...
...some top-level wrangling with Pinar Gote, who has a monopoly over travel to the Galapagos, and two high Ecuadoran Air Force officers, produced a viable compromise. Sulloway credited an introductory letter from President Pusey and the energetic intervention of an American working for the Ecuadoran National Tourist Agency with breaking the deadlock...