Webster, Richard

Contemporary British writer. Webster’s major works are A Brief History of Blasphemy: Liberalism, Censorship and ‘The Satanic Verses’ and Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis (1995).  In the latter work Webster suggests that, in various ways, Freud’s theories were not scientific but were (often Judeo-Christian) religious beliefs in disguise.

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