Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. HarperCollins, 362 pages, $ 25 This book has its flaws, especially with regard to
Freudian thought, but its contributions to our understanding of how Freudian concepts were used to....
But her final opinion» anticipated by any reader accustomed to the fixed rails of
Freudian thought» seems at once trivial and untrue: if a patient has long believed that his gender of rearing was in error and really wants this surgical operation, he and / or she best have it.
The rich wisdom of
Freudian thought, of Jungian depth analysis, of Gestalt experience, of Family systems and structures, each has a place.
Back then it was a tiny book that reflected
the Freudian thinking predominant in the 1960s.
Not exact matches
I
think wise - up smarten - up wake - up are apt expressions for the usual,
freudian psycotic Catholic haters slithering round out there.
Freud was particularly influential in literary studies, and I sometimes
think that the fading of my early desire to become an English professor came from an overdose of lit crit essays searching out
Freudian imagery everywhere in the canon.
As we noted in the case of
Freudians and Marxists, in the process of studying another figure, for example, Foucault, one may find that one is now understanding and appropriating Jesus from his point of view, that Foucault's insights have become the organizing principles for one's
thought and life.
I did not understand him to be equating
Freudian therapy with modern neuroscience; I
thought, rather, that he took his own distaste for what he sees as certain mystifications in the former as a point de départ for reflections on a deterministic and mechanistic philosophy he finds even more distasteful.
Ruth Monroe describes the
thought of the ego psychologists as «the mainstream of progress in
Freudian psychoanalysis.»
Over in psychology, a Skinnerian or a
Freudian unabashedly propounds his own school's
thought as if it were normative for the entire field.
Also I don't
think you know what a
freudian slip is.
I
think jungian analysts understand his fixatation with self while talking about wholeness... Or as he says cohesion... What I want to hear from is
Freudian analysts... coz I
think his secret lies with them
The possible
freudian slip will not please any Gunners fans, with the
thought of strengthening a strong rival an unprecedented possibility.
Just when you
thought they hadn't
thought of everything to make Baby's upbringing as clinical and as humanly possible, a
Freudian with a serious hygiene fetish got wind of the news.
SUBCONSCIOUS
thought is the brain's dumb autopilot — the chump behind repetitive tasks,
Freudian slips and all the other things we do «without
thinking».
I won't give it away, but compare the personality he's expressing with his face at the very end, then
think about the situation and you'll come to some very... let's say,
Freudian conclusions.
That famous movement's auteurs disdained
Freudian psychology (at least at first) and rarely embedded their protagonists in familial contexts;
think of Godard, whose characters spring to life in an existential present, with no hint of having had parents, much less grandparents.
She's more
Freudian so she doesn't really tell me [what she
thinks], but she says it's interesting that I recreate things but then I change them.
This is
Freudian food for
thought, with Tampopo (both the character and the film) the ultimate nourishing mother, and all of us happily devouring what she so generously offers, and wishing for more.
There are two approaches left to Shakespeare, I
think: to acknowledge the centuries of intense scholarship around the canon that has uncovered the archetype (mostly Jungian, sometimes
Freudian) mooring the tales, or to ignore them.
In interviews with the French press, she calls Laurens insolent «to imagine herself as the center of my novel, to
think that I had written the book
thinking of her and not my mother» and says the accusation came from the
Freudian desire to be the only «child» of Otchakovsky.
I
think there's something
Freudian in that, but I was also struck by the concept of two individuals collaborating on one book.
In 2010 art historian Jean - Pierre Criqui wrote about Fritsch's depictions of animals: «The way the artist uses them, but also the situations in which she places them, gives them ambiguous powers at the intersection of several tendencies: humanity's ancestral fears and superstitions, as expressed, for example, in tales and legends; the intensities of totemic
thought and of its images; and the uncanny and
Freudian dream study.»
The title relates to the
Freudian metaphor of the subconcious as the sea, from which
thoughts and ideas surface into consiousness.
LEE KRASNER On the other hand, when you introduce the
Freudian aspect in abstract expressionism I must say I haven't
thought of it in those terms.
She describes her work as «being physical explorations into
thinking, feeling, communicating and relating» and is influenced by the pioneering work of Melanie Klein (1882 — 1960), the Austrian - born British psychologist who advanced the field of child psychology by devising therapeutic techniques where children were invited to experiment and play with materials, asserting the importance of non-linguistic (i.e.
Freudian) responses to our relationship with the world.
It is a
Freudian slip disclosing an underlying
thought, but it also introduces a profound contradiction.
In
Freudian language, this conflict between internal desires and external behaviors is called a «reaction formation» — a coping mechanism for (unconsciously) suppressing
thoughts that are deemed unacceptable to the individual and then overtly displaying behavior that is the opposite of the suppressed
thought.
I sometimes
think mistakes like that are
Freudian slips.