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The Freud Reader

by Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud

The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.

What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud... (more)

Top tags: psychology, reference, research, 10 - 15 yrs, bio (all tags)

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donatella camatta said:

“excellent basis for detailed study and then evolved in the time! I think that Freud himself would be read by meta! because some theories were still to be developed and deepen”

posted Saturday, July 5 2008

donatella camatta said:

“excellent basis for detailed study and then evolved in the time! I think that Freud himself would be read by meta! because some theories were still to be developed and deepen”

posted Saturday, July 5 2008

ida_ming_tao said:

“I think he had a lot of ideas right concerning developing children, but his sample of women was extremely biased, and we can't forget the views of his time period were really narrow to begin with. Then there were the copious amounts of drugs. When it came to ideas such as the motivations of normal women, he was basically thinking in a vacuum of troubled patients.

Academics of today have put his ideas on such a pedestal for being a starting point of psychoanalysis that they tend to forget his work is still only prototypical of what we tend to believe as common sense today.

The problem of Freud is the problem of all great minds which have been doomed to the dreaded terminology of canon. Canonized ideas have been taken away from us and set in glass displays never to be re-thought or inventively inspected again while they sit calcifying and incomplete.

Some academics are more in love with having a rule set to set them apart than in openly investigating and sharing the wealth of insight.

And sadder still, some do not believe rules are always prototypical, and delude themselves into thinking there is ever an absolute that will make them unarguably the master of a certain school of thought. Equality is simply inevitable as each new perspective washes up on the shores of the next.

Turning people off to Freud's ideas in general due to the the rigid loyalties of his supporters is the ultimate tragedy though.”

posted Sunday, August 5 2007

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