Posted: Apr 05, 2010 8:36 am
Mr.Samsa wrote:Out of interest, can anyone think of any of Freud's ideas that were fairly accurate? So far there have been some mumblings of defence mechanisms gaining some support in a revised form, his linking of hysteria to traumatic childhood experiences (although he retracted that), and... anything else?
(I'm interested in ideas that were his, rather than well established ideas in his time - such as 'unconscious' processes controlling a lot of behavior etc).
No answers here but two questions that boil down to "wow really?" I mean, did he really retract the link of hysteria to traumatic childhood experiences and even more, was the unconscious really an established idea at his time? That's not how his contribution was presented to me at school
Any reading suggestions on the history of the notion of unconscious processes? It would be interesting to compare that to developments in 19th century and early 20th century literature, especially psychological realism to early modernism.
