Freud | Freud
Feb.16.2013
I'm slowly working my way through a collection of short stories and poems edited by Harold Bloom http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20945.Stories_and_Poems_for_Extremely... and read several stories by well-known authors ( http://libradventures.com/1887/horla/ Maupassant, Melville, Wharton,...
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Feb.04.2013
I never was one for Freud (who seems to have interpreted almost everything in terms of libido and the death drive) but Jung doesn't have a profound attraction for me either, maybe because they're both into dream analysis and I don't believe that symbols are universal. I somehow doubt that the...
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Jan.30.2013
Mark Edmundson argues in his Why Read? that great writing can take the place of religion in guiding souls "if religion continues to lose its hold on consequential parts of society."
I find this idea to be interesting in that Marx is known to have said that "religion is the opium of the people" http...
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Jan.15.2013
My most common dream subjects:
1) New York—Most weeks, it's once or twice, but sometimes I'll dream four nights a week about living in New York City. "What's the attraction?" I wake up wondering, "is it the allure of living the footloose American ideal in the Big Apple? Could it be the...
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Nov.05.2012
A Response to excerpts from The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
The two chapters from The Psychpathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud demonstrate a unique style of reporting. Freud uses observations and examples to back up his conclusions. While the technique is...
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Jun.12.2012
Absence of Mind, which originated in the Terry Lecture Series at Yale, is subtitled: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. That subtitle ought to tell you whether you want to read this little book or not. What is “inwardness”? What is “the Modern...
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Feb.20.2012
It is a testament to the importance of Sigmund Freud that his findings in the field of human psychology find a legitimate place in a book about politics. Freud’s findings have had their ups and downs, but for the most part, he remains the pre-eminent figure in his field. His theories help explain...
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Jan.03.2012
"The psychological group is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells which constitute a living body form by their reunion a new being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells...
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Dec.03.2011
photo: Famous scene from Apocalypse Now, on http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/apocalypse.html
(this is a continuation of another post, which you can find here)
2. Look at the above list of works. Most of them are about the monster within. To borrow from Rousseau...
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Dec.01.2011
Photo: Man Who Laughs, Conrad Veidt
A few quick snippets that occurred to me today about this seminal work:
1. I was wondering today why so many works circa 1890-1900 centered around the mask we wear to keep apart the good and bad parts of our nature--or, rather, that...
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