PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Gay Science, Collective Unconscious, Beyond The Pleasure Principle

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It is suggested that freud (1856-1939) expressed contempt for philosophy and philosophers (cybulska, 2008). Yet, as nietzsche remarked: great despisers are great admirers". However, freud did fall under the sway of a philosophy professor, franz brentanno, when freud was a student at the university of vienna (makari, 2008): however, freud"s ideas show striking similarity to those of. Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and nietzsche (1844-1900): schopenhauer viewed the unconscious as a secret workshop of the will"s decisions". Man, like every living being, thinks continually without knowing it; the thinking that rises to consciousness is only the smallest part of all this. The most superficial and worst part for only this conscious thinking takes the form of words, which is to say signs of. 2 communication, and this fact uncovers the origin of consciousness (the gay science, v: p. 354): freud in 1923 postulated the id, ego, and superego" as forming three parts or functions of personality.

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