A Note on Freud
Through a reading of Dora’s confession, a set of general oppositions can be deduced: Men (active – dominant – external – objective) and Women (passive – submissive – internal – subjective). What characterizes these oppositions based on fundamental biological differences is not merely an asymmetrical antithesis between male and female, but a more insidious opposition […]
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A Note on Freud
Through a reading of Dora’s confession, a set of general oppositions can be deduced: Men (active – dominant – external – objective) and Women (passive – submissive – internal – subjective). What characterizes these oppositions based on fundamental biological differences is not merely an asymmetrical antithesis between male and female, but a more insidious opposition […]Continue reading →
The Modern Day Freud Debunked
I was very pleased with this weeks reading assignment of Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, for besides my love of English, I adore Psychology. I have been learning Freud from a psychological perspective since some time in … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Modern Day Freud Debunked
I was very pleased with this weeks reading assignment of Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, for besides my love of English, I adore Psychology. I have been learning Freud from a psychological perspective since some time in … Continue reading → Continue reading →
A Note on Freud
I think I’ll be mentioning this in seminar on Wednesday but I guess I’ll mention it right now here on my blog. In the beginning of Freud’s Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, I believe on page 9, I find it funny that Freud quotes Goethe’s Faust. Though we only read Marlowe’s story of Doctor […] Continue reading →
A Note on Freud
I think I’ll be mentioning this in seminar on Wednesday but I guess I’ll mention it right now here on my blog. In the beginning of Freud’s Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, I believe on page 9, I find it funny that Freud quotes Goethe’s Faust. Though we only read Marlowe’s story of Doctor […] Continue reading →
Fraud
Okay so part of me found this to be really interesting, especially with the various ideas like transference and displacement and all the other techniques your body uses to mask your trauma or protect you, but at the same time … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Fraud
Okay so part of me found this to be really interesting, especially with the various ideas like transference and displacement and all the other techniques your body uses to mask your trauma or protect you, but at the same time … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Links on Freud
I just found a website that has some good basic information on several of Freud’s theories: http://www.victorianweb.org/science/freud/index.html I’ve put this on the page that has links about texts, accessible under “Links” in the menus above: http://blogs.ubc.ca/arts1hendricks/links-about-texts/ I’ll add more things … Continue reading →
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
In one of his final essays, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable” (1937), Sigmund Freud writes that “it almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The … Continue reading Continue reading