Difference between revisions of "Sigmund Freud"
m |
(add notes) |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
Freud proposed that the human psyche consists of three parts -- Ego, super-ego, and id -- and that defense mechanisms are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id. | Freud proposed that the human psyche consists of three parts -- Ego, super-ego, and id -- and that defense mechanisms are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id. | ||
| − | Freud's theories were unscientific, as pointed out by [[Karl Popper]] and others at the time. No one has ever been able to do any experiment that showed any merit to any of it. Freud lied about his own subjects to make it appear that his psychoanalysis had some benefit | + | Freud's theories were unscientific, as pointed out by [[Karl Popper]] and others at the time. No one has ever been able to do any experiment that showed any merit to any of it. Freud lied about his own subjects to make it appear that his psychoanalysis had some benefit.<ref>"The verdict has been uniformly negative: Freud as a scientist, metapsychologist, and diagnostician of society emerges as a quack. This view has not greatly perturbed true believers." [http://human-nature.com/freud/tallis.html] "The anti-Freud argument boils down to this: Freudian practice is pseudoscience (quackery, if you will) because it fails an essential test of a true science--that is, it does not produce propositions that, in principle, can be shown to be false. Here it seems to me that Crews and his allies are on unassailable ground. One finds in Freud's work only a charade of the scientific method." [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030912.html]</ref> |
Sigmund Freud died of maxillary [[cancer]] at the age of 82. | Sigmund Freud died of maxillary [[cancer]] at the age of 82. | ||
Revision as of 20:04, April 3, 2007
Template:StubSigmund Freud (1856–1939) was the father of psychoanalysis. In 1938 he fled the Nazis by travelling to England, where he died later.
He co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic technique, especially his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the symbolic interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires.
Freud proposed that the human psyche consists of three parts -- Ego, super-ego, and id -- and that defense mechanisms are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id.
Freud's theories were unscientific, as pointed out by Karl Popper and others at the time. No one has ever been able to do any experiment that showed any merit to any of it. Freud lied about his own subjects to make it appear that his psychoanalysis had some benefit.[1]
Sigmund Freud died of maxillary cancer at the age of 82.
References
- ↑ "The verdict has been uniformly negative: Freud as a scientist, metapsychologist, and diagnostician of society emerges as a quack. This view has not greatly perturbed true believers." [1] "The anti-Freud argument boils down to this: Freudian practice is pseudoscience (quackery, if you will) because it fails an essential test of a true science--that is, it does not produce propositions that, in principle, can be shown to be false. Here it seems to me that Crews and his allies are on unassailable ground. One finds in Freud's work only a charade of the scientific method." [2]