I do think god has a wicked sense of humor as Freud, Mohammed, and Henry the VII all had daughters and nothing but daughters and lots of them.
Joanna
Miles Jackson wrote:
>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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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.
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>>This is an incredibly mechanistic view of Freud's unconscious. And an
>>incredibly reductive view of Freud's view of art. But I guess it's
>>easier to argue with straw men than actual texts.
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>"Psychological considerations of a deeper kind justify the assertion
>that a man who has become a homosexual in this way remains
>unconsciously fixated to the mnemic image of his mother. By
>repressing his love for his mother he preserves it in his unconscious
>and from now on remains faithful to her."
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>Freud, Leonardo Da Vinci and a memory of his childhood, p. 55.
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>or this on the masculinity complex:
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>"From this point there branches off what has been named the
>masculinity complex of women, which may put great difficulties in the
>way of their regular development towards femininity, it cannot be got
>over soon enough. The hope of some day obtaining a penis in spite of
>everything and so of becoming like a man may persist to an incredibly
>late age and may become a motive for the strangest and otherwise
>unaccountable actions [later in this book, F. identifies feminism as
>one of these strange manifestations of the masculinity complex]. Or
>again, a process may set in which might be described as a "denial", a
>process which in the mental life of children seems neither uncommon
>nor very dangerous but which in an adult would mean the beginning of a
>psychosis. Thus a girl may refuse to accept the fact of being
>castrated, may harden herself in the conviction that she does possess
>a penis and may subsequently be compelled to behave as though she were
>a man." [F. later notes that this explains the curious tendency of
>some young women to display an interest in formal education and a
>profession rather than childrearing.] Freud, Sexuality and the
>psychology of love, p. 177-8.
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>I can produce myriad quotes like this from Freud's work, but I think
>I've illustrated my point: if you have complaints about the
>mechanistic view of Freud's unconscious, direct them at Freud, not me!
> (Unless you consider Freud's own words--a straw man?)
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>Miles
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