[lbo-talk] Post Marxist Era

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Sep 24 08:08:27 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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>> Freud's claims about a coherent psychological entity
>> called the "unconscious"
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> Where did Freud make these claims?
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> Doug
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In everything he wrote after about 1896. According to Freud, each of us has an unconscious mind distinct from the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind has a strong impact on conscious belief and action. For instance, Freud's psychohistory of DaVinci posits that his great works of art are a sublimation of the homosexual desires in his unconscious mind.

Miles



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