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Freudian Psychoanalysis
"The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love’. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." -- Joan Baez
It has now been seventy years, since G. Stanley Hall, the founder of the American Psychological Association invited Sigmund Freud and his colleagues to Clark University. The visit culminated in the establishment of the Division of Psychoanalysis. With a current membership of nearly 4000 the Division represents professionals who identify themselves as having a major commitment to the study, practice and development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The school that the pragmatic America recognized in 1909 had originated in Vienna. Today, psychoanalytical institutes are found in many parts of the world.
Psychoanalysis has always evoked strong reactions. Psychologists and philosophers have repeatedly predicted the death of psychoanalysis. Yet, the past few decades have seen a great revival of interest particularly from scholars of society interested in a theory of subjectivity. The many debates within psychoanalysis and in its relationship to other areas of thought such as feminism, cultural difference and others are well beyond the possibilities of this book. However, as authors of an introductory account of the history of psychology, our attempt in this chapter is to present a sympathetic though evaluative account of the work of Sigmund Freud, the man who introduced irrationality and sexuality into the discourse of Psychology.
Psychoanalysis as is known was brought to life and nurtured by a Viennese physician Sigmund Freud in the 1890s It was his strong conviction that there had been three instances of disgrace in human history. Galileo's discovery that we were not the center of the universe was the first one followed by Darwin's discovery that we were
"The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love’. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." -- Joan Baez
It has now been seventy years, since G. Stanley Hall, the founder of the American Psychological Association invited Sigmund Freud and his colleagues to Clark University. The visit culminated in the establishment of the Division of Psychoanalysis. With a current membership of nearly 4000 the Division represents professionals who identify themselves as having a major commitment to the study, practice and development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The school that the pragmatic America recognized in 1909 had originated in Vienna. Today, psychoanalytical institutes are found in many parts of the world.
Psychoanalysis has always evoked strong reactions. Psychologists and philosophers have repeatedly predicted the death of psychoanalysis. Yet, the past few decades have seen a great revival of interest particularly from scholars of society interested in a theory of subjectivity. The many debates within psychoanalysis and in its relationship to other areas of thought such as feminism, cultural difference and others are well beyond the possibilities of this book. However, as authors of an introductory account of the history of psychology, our attempt in this chapter is to present a sympathetic though evaluative account of the work of Sigmund Freud, the man who introduced irrationality and sexuality into the discourse of Psychology.
Psychoanalysis as is known was brought to life and nurtured by a Viennese physician Sigmund Freud in the 1890s It was his strong conviction that there had been three instances of disgrace in human history. Galileo's discovery that we were not the center of the universe was the first one followed by Darwin's discovery that we were