Artist: Anthony Storr
life and character
freud enrolled in the medical department of the university of vienna
like most people with this type of personality
freud exhibited a number of other obsessional habits and traits
freud had a lively appreciation of literature
from trauma to phantasy
excessive generalisation is a temptation for all original thinkers
exploring the past
it is quite possible that psychoanalysts have underestimated
these reminiscences were of a special kind
culture and religion
art and literature
infantile amnesia
dreams
the oedipus complex
in putting forward his ideas about infantile sexuality
many common human problems
of a variety of oral characteristics described
the female version of the oedipus complex is less clearly worked out
transference
totem and taboo
freud regarded dreams as if they were neurotic symptoms
aggression
one cannot blame the art historians
it is surely because freud was by nature an impersonal investigator
the death instinct
the appeal of psychoanalysis
today we might describe the person prone to melancholia rather differently
freud was essentially a dualist
structure of the mental apparatus
melancholia would today be described as a severe depressive illness
what freud suggests is illuminating
the ego is that part of the mind representing consciousness
some of the same criticisms which have been levelled at totem and taboo
the impression gained from reading freud
freud as therapist
a certain degree of detachment is undoubtedly required of the analyst
freud advised that most analytic patients should be seen every day
psychoanalysis today
psychoanalysis has often been referred to as a religion
earlier two reasons were given for requiring the patient to lie supine upon a couch
freudian theory made western man suspicious of conduct
earlier some aspects of the obsessional personality were outlined
freud defined the therapeutic aim of psychoanalysis as follows
freud is often linked with darwin and marx
any reader who studies the case of dora without prejudice
patients who seek psychoanalysis today are rather different
modern psychoanalysts have recognized the difficulty of defining
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