…go with it we have neglected the other faculty and significantly you see even a great deal of psychotherapeutic thinking descending from Freud. We speak of the two aspects of man as the conscious and the unconscious. Uh the unconscious mind, and that seems…

…are a freudian, you treat your horse not with a whip but with lumps of sugar, kindly, but still it's your horse. Even in Freud there is a very, very strong element of puritanism. Read Philip Ryf's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he…

…still it's your horse. Even in Freud there is a very, very strong element of puritanism. Read Philip Ryf's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows that Freud Basically thought: that sex was degrading, but nevertheless something biologically…

…element of puritanism. Read Philip Ryf's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows that Freud Basically thought: that sex was degrading, but nevertheless something biologically unavoidable, something terribly necessary which couldn't just be left…

…is that they were a steam kettle in a state of tremendous tension which had to be released. This was Freud's idea. Freud thought of sexual pleasure as occurring primarily in the moment of ejaculation. He had no real understanding of the importance of…

…it occurs, I just did that I couldn't help it. So in the same way, when a juvenile delinquent who's learned a little bit of Freud is called before the court, he says: well I couldn't help it because my mother gave me a trauma. There's no way to save…

…from which to construct a civilization and a culture. Maybe babies have this contact when they are born in terms of what Freud called the oceanic feeling a feeling of being one with the whole universe. But a baby's oceanic feeling is through the…

…for any reason whatsoever, but just don't impose it on other people and be holier than thou because of it. Because when Freud tried to say: well all religion is nothing but sex, my reaction is: so what? Because nothing is more metaphysical than sex…

…more the first the second one. The second one is basic because that's the way you felt when you were a baby. You have what Freud calls the oceanic feeling and you knew that. You were you didn't have words to put it in but you knew that you were this…

…Puppet and you've got to say: well I've been pushed around by this whole system. It's like juvenile delinquent who knows a little Freud and says: well I can't help what I'm doing because it was my mother. She was terribly mixed up and she didn't bring…

…the other one around you don't find brains without stomachs and sex organs. They all go together. And this is the fallacy of Freud in saying for example that the sexual apparatus and urges primary. It just goes along with the others so that you don't…

…When you get into a hot tub it goes all over your skin, you see, and it's a kind of diffused thing, what Freud called polymorphous erotic feeling all over. Whereas conscious awareness is like the point of a pencil it jabs and it writes down precisely…

…its metaphysical background. There is a big crisis going on right now a huge walloping argument, and it's roughly something like this: since Freud at any rate, mental disorders have been looked on as a form of sickness, and when we say that a person is…

…we that we do sometimes sort get sick on purpose. And indeed, if you read grodek, you know that extraordinary, more freudian than Freud man who wrote the book of the it. This is a book about his idea that in healing ordinary sicknesses you know mumps…

…movement in terms of the philosophy of science and the philosophy of nature that was prevalent in the great days of Freud, Jung. And Adler and other founding fathers of modern psychiatry, and showing that scientific naturalism or the fully automatic model…

…with it, we have neglected the other faculty, and significantly. You see in a great deal of psychotherapeutic thinking descending from Freud, we speak of these two aspects of man as the conscious and the unconscious. The unconscious mind and that seems to…

…that is native to our organism, the awareness that we had in a rudimentary form as babies but never was developed, which Freud called oceanic consciousness, that is, the clear knowledge of the very, very, really obvious fact that each one of us is a…

…the philosophy of science in the nineteenth century you hear people talking about energy. Lying behind matter as blind energy. Freud defines psychic energy as the unconscious and furthermore calls it libido, which means blind lust. It's stupid, the unconscious…

…means blind lust. It's stupid, the unconscious is stupid it wants pleasure and has no sense of reality, and therefore Freud would oppose the pleasure principle to the reality principle. And therefore civilization is always thought of as being against…

…in the world. There's a slight flavor of taboo hanging over it from the older generations, but it isn't a serious taboo anymore, not since Freud. You know there's two ages, b f and a f and in a f sex is no longer taboo. What is taboo? There's always…

…and clarity and introducing a friendly criticism of existentialism which is very well worth reading. He goes on to discuss Freud and modern philosophy very properly, because after all Freud a psychologist in the technical sense, has actually contributed more…

…which is very well worth reading. He goes on to discuss Freud and modern philosophy very properly, because after all Freud a psychologist in the technical sense, has actually contributed more to the total climate of modern thought than probably anybody…

…involved in criminology knows this is a very dangerous thing because, say the juvenile delinquent who has learned a little bit about Freud can always get up and say: well I'm not responsible that I went and smashed various people in the Face with a…

…meeting takes place at a rather personal level, but the manifest content involves attempts to: one demonstrate who was closest to Freud or who can quote him most voluminously, and two who can confuse the most people by his daring extension of Freud's…

…and envious one down emotions. The losers return to their studies to search their mind's dictionary science fiction journals and Freud for even more elaborate metaphorical flights in preparation for the next meeting. The ploys of analyst and patient can be…

…lazy life and it's um without ambition and it is a negation of the whole idea of being a good consumer. Now I think Freud and Jung had a very great insight when they point out that the constellation of motives in the unconscious is always liable to be…

…feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world. So much for Freud. The second is from Gardner Murphy, professor of psychology at Columbia University, and from his book personality. If moreover we…

…reflected in the language of 19th century thinkers when they talked about the energy of the cosmos being blind energy. When Freud described psychic energy as libido, which means blind and unconscious lust. It's what we call reductionism. But what lies behind…

…of that time, would think of the energy of the universe as blind energy. And correspondingly it seems to me that Freud thought of the libido as essentially blind unconscious energy, embodying only a kind of formless unstructured and insatiable lust. This is…

…round one. Now it's extraordinarily easy to make fun of all this, and we must not forget that we owe a tremendous debt to Freud, if for nothing else than pointing out that that much of ourselves of which we are aware in terms of the conscious ego is…

…gets murdered for getting murdered. There is a curious sense in which a lot of people go around looking for trouble. Freud pointed out quite correctly the psychology of accident prone individuals. They seem to be attracting trouble like lights attract moths.…

…is why I think that Harry stack Sullivan's Basic ideas about psychopathology are in some respects more profound than Freud's. Freud is always looking into the individual history, into the physiology, into the depth psychology of the individual in an interior…

…money, about which we have the most unbelievable superstitions and psychological blocks, which have been gone into at some length by Freud, who equates our valuation of money with our attitude to excrement, and a very complicated lot of complexes grow up…

…more the first the second one. The second one is basic because that's the way you felt when you were a baby. You had what Freud calls the oceanic feeling and you knew that you were. You didn't have words to put it in but you knew that you were this…

…clarity and introducing a friendly criticism of existentialism which is very well worth reading. He goes on to discuss Freud and modern philosophy very properly, because after all Freud, although a psychologist in the technical sense, has actually contributed…

…which is very well worth reading. He goes on to discuss Freud and modern philosophy very properly, because after all Freud, although a psychologist in the technical sense, has actually contributed more to the total climate of modern thought than probably…

…fact that the prevailing philosophy of science of the 19th century was what we might call a naturalistic monism. Such people as Freud and Huxley and Hegel Firmly believed that all the mental phenomena of human life could be explained in terms of neurology…

…of food supply and eat later on and in this sense then reason operates as the creation and as the servant of what Freud would call eros or libido, the pleasure principle. But when we've got a culture like ours, which has somehow confused the hierarchy…

…the habit of reading articles very much but so far as books are concerned I know about two books outside of the work of Freud where he discusses death wishes and so on and outside the work of Jung, who has said that he regards his kind of…

…are a freudian, you treat your horse not with a whip but with lumps of sugar, kindly, but still it's your horse. Even in Freud there is a very, very strong element of puritanism. Read Philip Reif's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he…

…still it's your horse. Even in Freud there is a very, very strong element of puritanism. Read Philip Reif's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows that Freud Basically thought that sex was degrading, but nevertheless something biologically…

…element of puritanism. Read Philip Reif's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows that Freud Basically thought that sex was degrading, but nevertheless something biologically unavoidable, something terribly necessary which couldn't just be…

…thing is throughout Victorian art forms and the conduct of the British Aristocracy during that period beggared description. People like Freud and havelock Ellis made certain mistake. They said about the church and about religion in general that it was nothing…

…religion. Now the problem: in this debate: everybody missed the boat. The church should have been in a position to say to Freud: well of course, thank you very much. Yes indeed our symbolism is sexual. The steeples on our churches, the vesicle shaped…

…is supposed to take control of the lower self, and for this reason we're always at cross purposes with ourselves. Freud for example, distinguished between the pleasure principle, which he located in the genital region, and the reality principle which he…

…way of looking at things and are not that myopic about it, you will begin to see what is I think clumsily foreshadowed by Freud and Jung. Especially Freud in his idea of self punitiveness death wishes and all these things where he is trying to say of…

…and are not that myopic about it, you will begin to see what is I think clumsily foreshadowed by Freud and Jung. Especially Freud in his idea of self punitiveness death wishes and all these things where he is trying to say of the unfunctioning of the…

…get into a catastrophe you were accident prone because you wanted to punish yourself. Now actually grodek is much better at this than Freud. Very few people know grodek. Grodek really was behind a lot of Freud's ideas and he wrote a thing called the book…

…it, das Buch Von Es, and in this he explains the most extraordinary theory of the unconscious, which he doesn't like Freud. Freud Basically didn't trust the unconscious. That's why he felt that the reality principle was in irreconcilable conflict with the…

…Buch Von Es, and in this he explains the most extraordinary theory of the unconscious, which he doesn't like Freud. Freud Basically didn't trust the unconscious. That's why he felt that the reality principle was in irreconcilable conflict with the pleasure…

…it has learned any words, is all the time using floodlight consciousness with a little bit of spotlight and therefore would feel as Freud supposed, oceanic that is to say at one with its surroundings. When later words are used and it is taught to be…

…this is: everybody here has just as much capacity as buddha had. Nobody who was buddha's teacher? Think about that who psychoanalyzed Freud? Somebody has to start, and so everybody has the potentiality of being the first one. So I call this problem the…

…two sides to ourselves, one the animal side and the other the human and civilized side, and these are expressed in what Freud calls the pleasure principle, which he classifies with the animal side, with the id, and the other the reality principle, which…

…days without a bowel movement, and heaven only knows what anxiety, what frightful purges were taken. But as George Grodek, the contemporary of Freud used to say, just don't worry about it there's a hole down at the end and it's got to come out sometime.…

…motivated by the libido, and you know what that is and you can't trust it. In the old days they used to beat it with whips, but Freud said: don't do it that way you have to treat it as a good horse trainer he trains a horse by giving it a lump of…

…to as the child's in the infants the baby's fundamental knowledge of the unity of the world, the oceanic feeling that Freud called perfect like great space the tao lacks nothing and has nothing in excess. Truly because of our accepting and rejecting…

…blind energy. And you must notice the language in which the great thinkers of the 19th century thought about the world. Freud, for the basic psychic energy, used the word libido, which in a 19th century Vienna, was exceedingly uncomplimentary: libido, blind…

…developed all the disciplines of the culture, the vanaprastha then becomes again as a child. But then you see, he has what Freud says the child has from the beginning. Freud called it the oceanic feeling. And the oceanic feeling is the sensation of being…

…vanaprastha then becomes again as a child. But then you see, he has what Freud says the child has from the beginning. Freud called it the oceanic feeling. And the oceanic feeling is the sensation of being one with the universe. The vanaprastha gets that…

…doing. And if you are not very careful at that point you'll proclaim yourself god almighty in the Hebrew Christian sense, like Freud alleges babies feel that they're omnipotent and in a way they are. I am omnipotent insofar as I'm the universe, but I'm…

…rules if you contrast a book for example on child rearing, written in say 1860, with Dr Spock. Well Dr Spock is Post Freud and since Freud ideas of child rearing have altered quite radically. And also one must not forget that Montessori and froebel and…

…contrast a book for example on child rearing, written in say 1860, with Dr Spock. Well Dr Spock is Post Freud and since Freud ideas of child rearing have altered quite radically. And also one must not forget that Montessori and froebel and all sorts of…

…for us men whatsoever. Now, why did such an idea possess the western world? Why could it be that in the 19th century, Freud could talk about the basic energies of the psyche as libido and compare them to the blind forces of brute emotions? You know…

…rascals. It's not wise. And furthermore you can't trust yourself. Underneath the thin veneer of civilization, you have an unconscious and as Freud has told us, this unconscious is libidinous and it's a blind urge of pure animal lust and rage and fear. And…

…high dogma, that the unconscious is stupid, and you call it libido, which is a cuss word. Libidinous means blind lust, and Freud used that word in parallel with Ernst Haeckel, who was a contemporary biologist who thought that the energy of the universe…

…do it like we train a horse: instead of whipping it you give it lumps of sugar and you watch out though you see Freud was scared stiff of the unconscious. He was a good, bourgeois, Jewish, Viennese, well behaved person. Once upon a time Freud and Jung…

…see Freud was scared stiff of the unconscious. He was a good, bourgeois, Jewish, Viennese, well behaved person. Once upon a time Freud and Jung went together to New York and Jung was delighted to walk down fifth avenue and see so many beautiful women.…

…together to New York and Jung was delighted to walk down fifth avenue and see so many beautiful women. And he turned to Freud and said: my goodness how many beautiful women there are here, why don't we somehow arrange and make a date for the night?…

…said: my goodness how many beautiful women there are here, why don't we somehow arrange and make a date for the night? And Freud drew himself up and said: you forget that, doctor I'm a married man, huh. So Freud always thought that the unconscious was…

…the philosophy of science in the 19th century you hear people talking about energy lying behind matter as blind energy. Freud defines psychic energy as the unconscious and furthermore calls it libido, which means blind lust. It's stupid. The unconscious is…

…means blind lust. It's stupid. The unconscious is stupid. It wants pleasure and has no sense of reality, and therefore Freud would oppose the pleasure principle to the reality principle, and therefore civilization is always thought of as being against…

…being not supernatural, merely natural. And all sorts of phrases were coined in that epoch, which I would call put down phrases. Freud spoke of the basic psychic energy as libido, which means blind lust. People like Ernst Haeckel spoke of the universe as…

…19th century background, to think that this energy which goes on and off is inherently stupid, that it is a mechanical thing. Freud called it libido, Ernst Haeckel called it energy. And therefore we feel that we as human beings are flukes. A million…

…the world, the babies know that they can't say because they don't have any language. They know who they are, they have what Freud calls the oceanic experience. I don't know really how he found this out. See, the whole problem of a child psychologist is…

…this is magnified this is the thing. So this whole position of a religion geared to repression is essentially what it is. Freud was right, but Freud Didn't have the courage of his convictions. This is why Norman Brown's book life against death is such…

…this is the thing. So this whole position of a religion geared to repression is essentially what it is. Freud was right, but Freud Didn't have the courage of his convictions. This is why Norman Brown's book life against death is such a marvelous piece of…

…kinds of things and say no it was my parents. See if there's a fellow taken in juvenile delinquency and he knows a little Freud, he can say well I couldn't help it because I was psychoanalytically fouled up when I was a baby, even before perhaps I was…

…as to who had the true sacraments, just as psychoanalysts quarrel among themselves as to are you really in the line of Freud, where you were analyzed by someone who was analyzed by someone who was ultimately analyzed by Freud and in psychoanalysis there…

…you really in the line of Freud, where you were analyzed by someone who was analyzed by someone who was ultimately analyzed by Freud and in psychoanalysis there is a huge apostolic succession. So in the same way now with LSD, to take one example, there…

…are being psychoanalyzed feel that anybody who is not being psychoanalyzed is neurotic, as Philip Reif puts it in his book on Freud, the mind of the moralist. He says the characteristic institution of our era is not the parliament but the hospital, that…

…t h Huxley, the world is basically nothing but energy, blind, unintelligent force. And likewise, in parallel to this, in the philosophy of Freud, the basic psychological energy is libido, which is blind lust, and it is only a fluke it is only as a result…

…inherit from the political structures of the tigris euphrates cultures and from Egypt, the pharaoh Amenhotep Iv is probably, as Freud suggested, the original author of moses monotheism and certainly the Jewish Law code comes from Hammurabi in chaldea, and…

…in evolution. And therefore, under the influence of that sort of theory of history which is felt in the work of both Freud and Jung, One gets the feeling of there being a kind of progressive development of human consciousness and Jung is charitable enough…

…Anybody who knows anything at all about the elementary principles, say, of psychoanalysis, knows that according to the ideas of both Freud and Jung, who are in a way the great patriarchs of what we call depth psychology, that according to their ideas…

…who wrote very pious and holy books actually led disreputable lives. And I think there is a great deal of truth in the way Freud so often points out that what is expressed in the world of dreams is the opposite side of life to that which one is…

…survive until they don't. And this is rather odd because what happens to the instinct for survival when people don't survive? Well Freud thought he solved this problem by inventing a death wish a death instinct. But that too is something as phony as the…

…do you want a very exciting life that is short and sweet? It interested me to come across this quotation the other day which Freud wrote in a letter to his own doctor, Dr Fleece, in which he said: I am not following your interdict in regard to…

…meeting takes place at a rather personal level, but the manifest content involves attempts to: one, demonstrate who was closest to Freud or who can quote him most voluminously, and two, who can confuse the most people by his daring extension of Freud's…

…and envious one down emotions. The losers return to their studies to search their minds, dictionaries science fiction journals and Freud for even more elaborate metaphorical flights in preparation for the next meeting. The ploys of analyst and patient can be…

…At first it's shocked: what the bat? What is that by the way? What is the fundamental taboo, the thing you really mustn't do? Freud said it was sex. But because he said that you see we've recovered from it. The epoch bf before Freud and the epoch af…

…really mustn't do? Freud said it was sex. But because he said that you see we've recovered from it. The epoch bf before Freud and the epoch af are very different. Sex isn't the taboo maybe it's incest. Why is incest taboo? It's getting kind of close…

…you expect. So then the public says, well we should get after the parents. But then the parents say because they've learned a little Freud it wasn't our fault it was our parents who were neurotic too. And so you see you pass the buck back back back,…

…kinds of things and say no it was my parents. See if there's a fellow taken in juvenile delinquency and he knows a little Freud, he can say: well I couldn't help it because I was psychoanalytically fouled up when I was a baby, even before perhaps I…

…the world. There's a slight flavor of taboo hanging over it from the older generations, but it isn't a serious taboo anymore since Freud you know there's two ages bf and af and in af sex is no longer taboo. What is taboo? There's always something. The…

…has in biology, although I find that in psychology people still talk and think in a newtonian way. That for example, Freud structured the organism of psychology, of the human psyche, by analogy with hydraulics. So you must call freudianism a form of…

…of that time, would think of the energy of the universe as blind energy. And correspondingly it seems to me that Freud thought of the libido as essentially blind, unconscious energy, embodying only a kind of formless, unstructured and insatiable lust. This…

…round one. Now it's extraordinarily easy to make fun of all this, and we must not forget that we owe a tremendous debt to Freud, if for nothing else than pointing out that that much of ourselves of which we are aware in terms of the conscious ego is…

…h Huxley, the world is basically nothing but energy blind, unintelligent. Force. And likewise in parallel to this, in the philosophy of Freud, the basic psychological energy is libido, which is blind lust, and it is only a fluke. It is only as chances…

…as doing. And if you're not very careful at that point, you'll proclaim yourself god almighty in the Hebrew Christian sense, like Freud alleges babies feel that they're omnipotent, and in a way they are. I am omnipotent in so far as I'm the universe,…

…are a freudian you treat your horse not with a whip but with lumps of sugar kindly but still it's your horse. Even in Freud there is a very very strong element of puritanism read Philip Reef's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows…

…still it's your horse. Even in Freud there is a very very strong element of puritanism read Philip Reef's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows that Freud Basically thought that sex was degrading, but nevertheless something biologically…

…element of puritanism read Philip Reef's book on Freud the mind of the moralist, and how he shows that Freud Basically thought that sex was degrading, but nevertheless something biologically unavoidable something terribly necessary which couldn't just be swept…

…thing is throughout Victorian art forms and the conduct of the British Aristocracy during that period beggared description. People like Freud and havelock Ellis made certain mistake. They said about the church and about religion in general that it was nothing…

…religion. Now the problem in this debate: everybody missed the boat. The church should have been in a position to say to Freud: well of course thank you very much. Yes indeed our symbolism is sexual the steeples on our churches the vesicle shaped Windows…

…will know what all child psychologists have always wanted to know: how it is that a baby feels. And the baby, according to Freud at least, has the oceanic experience, that is to say a feeling of complete inseparability from what's going on. The baby is…

…by the libido, and you know what that is and you can't trust it. In the old days they used to beat it with whips. But Freud said: don't do it that way you have to treat it as a good horse trainer. He trains a horse by giving it a lump of…