Posted by zazenduck on April 1, 2006, at 10:42:07
In reply to Freud is on the cover of Newsweek!, posted by madeline on April 1, 2006, at 9:42:25
I started to ask you what exactly were the ideas of SigF because I really don't know although he's such a part of the culture. But I went to WIKI instead and this is their list.
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. The theories distinctive of this school generally included the following hypotheses: (1) that human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire, (2) that the psychic apparatus habitually represses wishes, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature, whereby they become preserved in one or more unconscious systems of ideas, (3) that unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to express themselves in dreams, parapraxes ("Freudian slips"), and symptoms, (4) that unconscious conflicts are the source of neuroses, and (5) that neuroses can be treated through bringing the unconscious wishes and repressed memories to consciousness in psychoanalytic treatment....WIKI
Nope. Not alive for me. Sounds kind of bizarre in fact. Stripped down to the bones like that. But maybe I protest too much. I meant the theory stripped down not me really this is not about me ;)
I've known a couple of incredibly gifted therapists who were analysts as well as a couple of real nutjobs.
Have you been through a formal analysis? I haven't and wouldn't.
> The magazine proclaims that Freud teachings are definately not dead, although most of his ideas are.
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> For me, on one hand, I feel as though I owe a great deal of gratitude to Freud, because his concept of psychoanalysis has really helped me a lot. (I have a portrait of Freud in my living room).
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> On the other hand, it's hard to understand Freud outside of the time in which he developed his theories. Further, his whole notion of women as incomplete men is quite insulting.
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> But I am interested in what you guys think? Is Freud really dead?
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