PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Castration Anxiety, Sigmund Freud, Animal Magnetism
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Observed things and said that the earth is the not the center of the world, the sun is. Voltaire and rousseau: secular humanistic view of human nature (we can use out own tools to care about humans) were both passionate lovers. Mesmer: narcotic rich society women (use to make a lot of money from the animal magnetism tub) he also became demonized by religious authorities. Casanova: wrote about the dark side of (sex sleepy sex was a book about how to do nasty things lol) Darwin (natural selection, and reason we exist is that our ancestors populated by sex) sex is essential part of human nature. From mesmer to hypnosis (hypnosis began to get popular, mind seemed to be split somehow) Charcot (interested in hysteria- physical symptoms with no obvious organic cause) Helmholtz (famous physician, revolutionizing discoveries about conversation of energy) Steam engines ( freud uses terms like hyrodlics and steam for humans)