SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Josef Breuer, Anna Freud, Albert A. Michelson

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

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Freud explained the major tenets of psychoanalysis to his american audience: he lectured about hysteria, dreams, repression, trauma, and treatment methods, he also addressed infantile sexuality and feared this topic would offend the puritanical attitude of americans. Freud imagined that any sort of pleasure is engagement in sexual activity. The audience was composed of many distinguished scholars representing science (franz. Boas, albert michelson, and ernest rutherford), philosophy (william james), and medicine (james putnam, morton prince, and adolf meyer: to his su(cid:396)p(cid:396)ise, f(cid:396)eud"s lecture and his pleasing self-deprecating delivery style were well received by the audience and the press. Side-(cid:374)ote: ju(cid:374)g told f(cid:396)eud that i(cid:374) his d(cid:396)ea(cid:373), he"s (cid:272)(cid:396)ossi(cid:374)g the (cid:271)o(cid:396)de(cid:396) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:449)itze(cid:396)la(cid:374)d i(cid:374)to aust(cid:396)ia. At the (cid:271)o(cid:396)de(cid:396), the(cid:396)e"s a de(cid:272)(cid:396)epit (cid:272)usto(cid:373)s offi(cid:272)ial (cid:449)ho"s gi(cid:448)i(cid:374)g hi(cid:373) a (cid:271)ad time and searching all his luggage: that"s f(cid:396)eud (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g ju(cid:374)g"s (cid:271)elief s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) a(cid:271)out ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hoa(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis.