- "Olver has written a provocative and passionate book"
- "His intention to outline and promote the subtleties and value of Freudian thought, and his dedication to tracing the construction and lines of dissemination of Freudian theory, are inspiring."
- "Radical Freud is remarkably ambitious: part intellectual history of the development of the psychoanalytic field, part the suggestion of a new metapsychology, part social theory, part utopic imagining, part close reading of Freud."
- "A meticulous reworking, and elaboration of the consequences, of ... a Freudian thesis of universal bisexuality that is distinct from the bisexuality that results from the full form of the Oedipus complex."
- "bisexuality becomes a nodal point for rethinking not only evolutionary science and social emancipation but also epistemology itself"
Emma Lieber in The European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Nov 18, 2025
https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/book-review-essay-radical-freu d/ - "Olver has written a provocative and passionate book"
- "His intention to outline and promote the subtleties and value of Freudian thought, and his dedication to tracing the construction and lines of dissemination of Freudian theory, are inspiring."
- "Radical Freud is remarkably ambitious: part intellectual history of the development of the psychoanalytic field, part the suggestion of a new metapsychology, part social theory, part utopic imagining, part close reading of Freud."
- "A meticulous reworking, and elaboration of the consequences, of ... a Freudian thesis of universal bisexuality that is distinct from the bisexuality that results from the full form of the Oedipus complex."
- "bisexuality becomes a nodal point for rethinking not only evolutionary science and social emancipation but also epistemology itself"
Emma Lieber in The European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Nov 18, 2025
https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/book-review-essay-radical-freud/