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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Freud's Dora...
On the whole, I have always found Freud VERY creepy. His constant inferences of sex and the subconcious mind, are ( to me) projected and hardly infered. I dont get why he is often dubbed as one of the greastest thinkers of our time. I mean I get it, but at the same time doesnt his clear perversion, take away from his genius. I have often heard many times Freud was not very helpful to his subject. Dora, is a clear case of that. It seems a little odd that the dreams that she does convey to Freud ( which are synomous to those of countless people even today) , he coud obscure into some incestuous sexual Fanstasy!! I actually don't get why we are reading this in this class!!!
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You are right! Freud was always like that...He always thought bizzare about psychology.
As you said fbelizar that "I dont get why he is often dubbed as one of the greastest thinkers of our time." That is because his way of thinking about subconcious mind fascinated people. Not many people knew about psychology at that time, it was a new subjet for people at that time. Expecially at early times in 1900's and later on, because nobody talked openly about sex at that time. (and I am talking here about Europe)
What can I say why people tink that Freus id greatest psychologist nodadays...I actually do not know...they might be just fascinated by his "works"...
Whatever I read from Freud, it always involved women and their subconcious mind.I disagree with Fbelizar about the fact that Frued is not the greatest thinker of our time. I think we would not be able to put it the way he did in his work. I think he is complex about his work but at same time he does come around with all that we feel sometimes.
I would only add, I doubt I would argue that he was the greatest thinker, but I definitely think a case can be made that he was the most influential thinker of the 20c. His ideas are now so pervasive, we usually don't recognize them as his. I don't blame students for disliking his work, but I do hope reading him helps us understand how he changed our entire sense of what it means to be human--how our minds works, the hidden forces that influence us, the role of sexuality in our lives. People had barely begun to ask these questions--certainly not in science. I admit, I find "Dora" a fascinating read--because of her but also because of him. Whether or not I agree with him, I think he is a brilliant "reader."
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