Freud and Modern Society

by Ronald Fletcher To devote a volume to Freud in a series on ''The Making of Sociology'' might seem, to some readers, very strange. Freud, they might argue, was not only (and very explicitly) a psychologist, but also (and equally explicitly) a clinical psychologist, whose most immediate preoccupation was that of trying to cure the mental illnesses of his patients. Furthermore, he was a psychologi...