The Foundations of Psychoanalysis in "The Assault on Truth" (1984), that Freud abandoned his seduction theory out of cowardice, Masson's position that "actual seductions" are the etiological factors in the development of hysteria is unfounded and credulous. He attributes to Freud a view he calls the "Tally Argument", arguing that Freud used it to justify the claim that durable therapeutic success guarantees not only that the pertinent analytic interpretations appear true or credible to the analysand but also that they are veridical, or at least close to the truth. He criticizes the theory of dreams Freud propounded in "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1899), referring
Interpretation of Dreams (Antiphon) including E. R. Dodds, take the view that Antiphon the dream-interpreter was a separate person. The treatise is notable, in the words of Pendrick, because it "was apparently the first "literary" work written on the subject of dream-interpretation—or at least the first to have achieved wide circulation". Cicero refers to it, as do Diogenes of Oenoanda and Artemidorus. Interpretation of Dreams (Antiphon) The Interpretation of Dreams or Dream-book, written by a certain Antiphon of Athens, is an influential ancient treatise on dreams, of which only a few fragments survive. It is not certain whether the Antiphon who wrote the treatise