Introduction

Truth-values in psychoanalysis; the nature of critique; its decline in both academia and psychoanalysis; ideological psychoanalysis; an emerging pragmatic consensus needing critique to determine what to include and what to discard; the illusions of science and training; the refusal of psychoanalysis to preach what it practices; its ethical character masked by the medical model; the devaluation of critique as oedipal pathology; and critique as dialectical deconstruction.