The striking analogies between the ideas of Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works were published from one to three decades before those of Freud, have been commented upon, but no previous systematic correlation of the ideas of Nietzsche and Freud has been made.

by Herbert Marcuse He was called the guru of the student movements in the 1960s. Posner accused Marcuse of wrongly believing that polymorphous perversity would help to create a utopia and that sex has the potential to be a politically subversive force. Writing in Public Intellectuals: A Story of Decline (2001), he suggested that “1960s […]

Neurotics are a rabble [Gesindel], good only to support us financially and to allow us to learn from their cases: psychoanalysis as a therapy may be worthless.

by Omnia El Shakry. Arabs recognised in Freud’s body of thought ideas from classical Islamic thinkers. In the 1940s and ’50s, when intellectuals translated Freud’s work into Arabic, they reached out to Ibn Arabi, the great 12th-13th-century Sufi mystic philosopher.

by Park MacDougald. The modern West, in his telling, is the first culture in history that has attempted to deny the legitimacy of the interdicts and to live without some form of sacred authority. Therapy is our means of getting away with this denial. The therapeutic ethos teaches us to overcome the guilt and shame, […]

Kevin Dickinson The Oedipal complex, repressed memories, penis envy? Sigmund Freud’s ideas are far-reaching, but few have withstood the onslaught of empirical evidence.

by Mona Charen. Much of the feminist project of the past half century, with its denial of sex differences and its insistence on stamping out sex roles, was misbegotten. Humans are not “assigned” sexes; we are male and female. Our differences are complementary, not superior or inferior. Decades of war between the sexes have led […]

by Mike Cross Sex is a powerful tool. Freud recognized in “Civilization and its Discontents” that unleashed libido would threaten the foundations of society which were, after all, based on repression of sex and aggression. To have a successful civilization one must subjugate the animal instincts and direct them into socially acceptable pursuits, including marriage […]

by Richard Waugaman. Psychiatry, 36:4, 458-467. This article begins with a brief review of the evidence that Freud was familiar with and influenced by the writings of Nietzsche. Secondly, there is a comparison of Nietzsche’s and Freud’s respective outlooks on human motivation, based on Nietzsche’s theory of the will to power and Freud’s theory of […]

by Julia Shaw As a memory scientist, I particularly dislike that he has generated such a foundation for false memories to be generated in therapy, the adverse repercussions of which I directly deal with in my research.

2015 Personality Lecture 08: Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud (Part 1) People organise their personalities by talking and if you don’t have anyone to listen to you then there’s no reality check.

Biographical notes, history, bibliography, correspondence transcripts, verse play, and meditation on the Great War, 1914-1918. by Phil McCray. https://archive.org/details/briffaultspassch0000mccr/mode/2up page 1 – 2 By unanimous judgment, Briffault was a fabulously learned and inventive thinker, yet also an overbearing and difficult personality. He was a communist and an atheist, yet he was a dandy who dressed […]

Synopsis, by Allen Esterson. Full paper: History of the Human Sciences, volume 11, no. 1, February 1998, pp.1-21 Introduction One of the most enduring myths of psychoanalytic history is that Freud proposed his seduction theory as a result of hearing frequent reports from his female patients that they had been sexually abused in childhood. A […]

by Richard Webster. Perhaps the most interesting, though least remarked feature of Studies on Hysteria is just how unoriginal many of its crucial ideas are. The central argument, namely that the physical symptoms of ‘hysteria’ were actually caused by some traumatic event which lay in the patient’s past was taken directly from Charcot. The contribution […]

by Han Israels sand Morton Schatzman. History of Psychiatry, iv (1993), 23-59. In the heat of the debate between Masson and his psychoanalytic opponents very few people have noticed that Masson attributed to Freud a version of the seduction theory that has never existed. According to Masson, Freud believed the stories his patients told him […]

ed. Sander Gilman. 1993. Although the diagnosis of hysteria in both women and men has virtually disappeared in our time, in practice its symptoms have been transformed into the medically sanctioned ‘conversion syndrome’ and then (mysteriously and perplexingly) have gone underground. It is easy to forget that the ancient threat of an invasive and irrepressible […]

by Morton Schatzman – 1992 Modern psychoanalysis depends on theories derived from Freud’s work with his patients. But he may not have recalled his own work correctly.

by Shulamith Firestone. “Thus, without the incest taboo, adults might return within a few generations to a more natural “polymorphously perverse” sexuality, the concentration on genital sex and orgasmic pleasure giving way to total physical/ emotional relationships that included that. Relations with children would include as much genital sex as the child was capable of […]

the history and evolution of dynamic psychiatry by Henri F. Ellenberger 1970 Freud, according to Ellenberger, was heir to the Protestant Seelsorge or “Cure of Souls”, a practice that arose after Protestant reformers abolished the ritual of confession. Psychotherapy term became fashionable in 1890 then in demand.

by David Abramsen. According to Weininger’s uncompromisingly dualistic philosophy, man represents the positive, productive, moral principle, while woman is absolutely negative, unproductive and amoral. The misery of mankind is caused by the bisexuality of all human beings, by the fact that each being is a mixture of male or good elements and of female or […]

by Sigmund Freud. They concern impressions of a sexual and aggressive nature and also early injuries to the self (injuries to narcissism) . We should add that children at that early age do not yet distinguish between sexual and purely aggressive actions so clearly as they do later on; (the ” sadistic ” misunderstanding of […]