SOC SCI H1F Lecture 8: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1F
• Professor: William R Schonfeld

Document Summary

Born: may 6, 1856 in pribor, czech republic. Died: september 23, 1939 in hampstead, united kingdom. Lived in vienna, austria for most of his life. His theories are probably the best overall to capture essence of the human psychology. Basically, freud wanted to study what people think about on a daily basis: his emphasis was upon self-knowledge in the management of our lives, the difference between the conscious and the unconscious mind. Long-ter(cid:373) (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) i(cid:374) ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455), (cid:862)the u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) to freud. The knowledge we have not only scientific or technical, but about our life (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess would be overwhelmed. As long as your brain stays intact, you have those long-term memories all of your life, always available. If we really want to manage our lives, we have to know ourselves. Freud was a great believer in knowing yourself. To make our lives as productive and happy as possible.