Socrates and Freud: Self and Self-Analysis
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Author(s)D. Vecchio
PublisherD. Vecchio
ISBN / ASINB00GYM75ZQ
ISBN-13978B00GYM75Z6
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
The impartial student of Sigmund Freud does not necessarily have to agree with all his conclusions. In reading Freud, it is his description of our human nature – its passion for knowledge and fulfillment – that attracts our attention. This quest for self-understanding is so time consuming that it feels like it could take a lifetime, and if it is to be fulfilled, it does. The reverberations of the psychoanalytic revolution have not stopped and have continued to inspire continuous study and the development of new ideas. Famously, Swiss psychoanalyst Dr. C.G. Jung added "archetypes" and "collective unconsciousness." Today, "Cognitive Therapy" is helping many people understand the "ironic" nature of their own minds.
Freud told us about our excessive appetites, desires, passions and reactions that supersede objective reality’s ability to accommodate them. If we are too fearful, we often deal with that fear by identifying with it. In Freud’s analysis of us, these excessive fears, in certain cases, are a search for authority and/or mental fortitude: self-respect, discipline and self-confidence that assures total clarity and satisfaction in the present moment.
At different times in his lectures and writings, Freud expounded on the same basic concepts using different analogies, e.g., the id as “uncoordinated instinctual trends†one time and “chaos" another. These multiple explanations of the same basic ideas were necessary to facilitate the acceptance and understanding of his theories.
Psychoanalysis dissects our psychical apparatus – both conscious and unconscious – to discover what people have done to themselves and each other with “wordsâ€â€”words that are containers of power that cause thoughts, emotions, actions and reactions. “Words†are what we use to satisfy our needs for survival and pleasure-seeking. The ability "to name it" is essential for hedonism, and we often are defeated by our hatred and fear of animate desires that cause guilt.
The "psychological stages" of adulthood and childhood cannot be counted in years. Freud said: “Every age has its own neuroses.†The adult must break through the parent/child complex. Through psychoanalysis, Freud wanted to free the “ego.†In an adult’s memories of the past, one is no longer reacting like a defenseless, psychologically immature child. In the present and for the future, one is coping and realigning wish fulfillment into positive, constructive goals like a confident adult. Freud elucidated the technique and understanding that attempts to integrate the whole personality. Consequently, this breakthrough provides a way to control and direct our thoughts to compete in the present.
Freud told us about our excessive appetites, desires, passions and reactions that supersede objective reality’s ability to accommodate them. If we are too fearful, we often deal with that fear by identifying with it. In Freud’s analysis of us, these excessive fears, in certain cases, are a search for authority and/or mental fortitude: self-respect, discipline and self-confidence that assures total clarity and satisfaction in the present moment.
At different times in his lectures and writings, Freud expounded on the same basic concepts using different analogies, e.g., the id as “uncoordinated instinctual trends†one time and “chaos" another. These multiple explanations of the same basic ideas were necessary to facilitate the acceptance and understanding of his theories.
Psychoanalysis dissects our psychical apparatus – both conscious and unconscious – to discover what people have done to themselves and each other with “wordsâ€â€”words that are containers of power that cause thoughts, emotions, actions and reactions. “Words†are what we use to satisfy our needs for survival and pleasure-seeking. The ability "to name it" is essential for hedonism, and we often are defeated by our hatred and fear of animate desires that cause guilt.
The "psychological stages" of adulthood and childhood cannot be counted in years. Freud said: “Every age has its own neuroses.†The adult must break through the parent/child complex. Through psychoanalysis, Freud wanted to free the “ego.†In an adult’s memories of the past, one is no longer reacting like a defenseless, psychologically immature child. In the present and for the future, one is coping and realigning wish fulfillment into positive, constructive goals like a confident adult. Freud elucidated the technique and understanding that attempts to integrate the whole personality. Consequently, this breakthrough provides a way to control and direct our thoughts to compete in the present.
