Posted on 11/30/2006 11:30:32 AM PST by globalwhiplash
Freud's Will to Power BY RONALD W. DWORKIN November 29, 2006
Legend has it that Freud, although educated in the philosophies of his day, studiously avoided the work of Nietzsche to preserve the originality of his ideas against external influence. Nietzsche's analysis of the human psyche, how values were supposedly projections of people's unspoken jealousies and fears, ran dangerously close to Freud's idea (still a work in progress at the end of the 19th century) that the roots of conscious behavior lay in unconscious desires.
But after reading Dr. Peter Kramer's outstanding new biography of Freud (HarperCollins, 213 pages, $21.95), one wonders if Freud feared something else, not influence but self-knowledge, for Dr. Kramer's Freud is practically the living embodiment of Nietzsche's will to power. It's not simply that Freud was incredibly ambitious. (At age four, after soiling a chair, he reassured his mother that he would grow up to be a great man and buy her another.) Rather, it was Freud's determination to systematize the world, to bring order to chaos, and to impose his theory of life on life itself — a determination so intense that one of Freud's colleagues called it a "psychical need."
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All I'm saying is, I read article after article belittling this great man without any real scholarship or unbiased research.
Is his work based on anything except his imagination?
Cocaine perhaps?
40 years of listening to the same stories my hundreds of different patients.
His cocaine period lasted 2 years, 15 years before his discovies.
Well, there are also his misreadings of Greek drama.
the word is interpretation
Isn't that kinda like being the second best guitar player in The Ramones?
Goethe was "20th Century"?
yeah, you're right.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I've read some of Joan Revere's translation's and Freud sounds like Sherlock Holmes deducting clues in most complex cases.
Did G. act in his own plays?
A thousand cuts sir! Ah, what did I mean by that???
"Some say he's the 2n'd best writer in 20th Century German."
Who was the first? Karl Jung?
That's what they say, 2nd best literary writer in German history. Goethe is first. Jung was a pathetic loser that cured absolutly nooone.
Goethe was "20th Century"?
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LOL. He was ahead of his time.
When Odepius' unwilling incest is twisted to mean a subconscious desire for incest, it is safe to say that a misreading has occurred. Some interpretations are better than others. A lot better.
You miss the point The gouging of eyes, beheadings, the rendering of limbs everyone knows what the unconsious meaning is. Freud just pointed it out in the Odepus legend.
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