Freud is now such a part of all of our lives, but perhaps in not the way that old Siggy himself would have liked.Everyone is savvy with the term Freudian, we all know that the dude paved the way into analysing our dreams and psychoanalysis remains with us, albeit in a much more limited way.For Freud, his theories were science more akin to biology than psychology.However, his theories were not drawn up nor developed in a scientific manner, being intensely metaphorical and far from entirely verifiable.Wittgenstein dismissed psychoanalysis as mere speculation rather than theory but there can be no doubting Freud was a great thinker, an immense heavyweight in the development of the human mind and our awareness of ourselves.He admitted himself in later life that his theories were exploratory, that perhaps he was more of a conceptualist than he would have readily admitted before.Indeed, Freud is open to countless interpretations and perhaps that's what maintains his ascendant position in our modern consciousness.Like a great dramatist, study of his work constantly opens up new avenues, he can be read over and over ad finitum and fresh insights will always be garnered.Indeed, like a novelist, Freud looked to his own life first, appropriating the parts that he thought could contribute insights on a universal level.But instead of concentrating on his real life experiences, he looked to his dreams, prevalent in them were the themes of an underlying hostility he felt towards his father and an incestuous, forbidden lust that he held for his mother when he was a child.Link this to an ancient Greek myth and abracadabra you have a theory which will capture the world's dirty imagination forever.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Life of Sigmund Freud - Part One
Freud is now such a part of all of our lives, but perhaps in not the way that old Siggy himself would have liked.Everyone is savvy with the term Freudian, we all know that the dude paved the way into analysing our dreams and psychoanalysis remains with us, albeit in a much more limited way.For Freud, his theories were science more akin to biology than psychology.However, his theories were not drawn up nor developed in a scientific manner, being intensely metaphorical and far from entirely verifiable.Wittgenstein dismissed psychoanalysis as mere speculation rather than theory but there can be no doubting Freud was a great thinker, an immense heavyweight in the development of the human mind and our awareness of ourselves.He admitted himself in later life that his theories were exploratory, that perhaps he was more of a conceptualist than he would have readily admitted before.Indeed, Freud is open to countless interpretations and perhaps that's what maintains his ascendant position in our modern consciousness.Like a great dramatist, study of his work constantly opens up new avenues, he can be read over and over ad finitum and fresh insights will always be garnered.Indeed, like a novelist, Freud looked to his own life first, appropriating the parts that he thought could contribute insights on a universal level.But instead of concentrating on his real life experiences, he looked to his dreams, prevalent in them were the themes of an underlying hostility he felt towards his father and an incestuous, forbidden lust that he held for his mother when he was a child.Link this to an ancient Greek myth and abracadabra you have a theory which will capture the world's dirty imagination forever.
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