…our culture even for a little and here comes in the dance naked with music and be an animal I mean that we have what Freud calls the id we have the instincts and the animal side and it is very important that we should find some outlet for this which…

…on to the great parable of the Grove of Grand Inquisitor. he asked various members of this group about this. I mean, Freud has written, actually, on Dostoevsky and has stated at the beginning of his essay on Dostoevsky that he thinks the parable of…

…consciousness. Speaking as yourself, speaking also as a member of your generation, how serious, how enduring was the impact on your mind of Freud I was never as intoxicated by Freud as some people were, and I get less intoxicated as I go on. I mean, I…

…also as a member of your generation, how serious, how enduring was the impact on your mind of Freud I was never as intoxicated by Freud as some people were, and I get less intoxicated as I go on. I mean, I think he omitted so much from his purview…

…I mean, this fact that he really leaves out, completely out of account, the whole physical side of man. I mean, to listen to Freud, you would think that man had only two points in his anatomy. The two ends of the digestive tube, I mean the mouth and…

…and we know very well that there are many things on the neurological and biochemical level which profoundly affect our minds. But Freud, and although he did himself say that he finally all nervous disorders would turn out to be organic, but he did say…

…of suffering on the part of the child. And there are, of course, I mean, we live in a world where people like Freud have said that... that extroversion is the way of health for everybody. Well, this is obviously simply not true, that it happened to…

…that extroversion is the way of health for everybody. Well, this is obviously simply not true, that it happened to be true for Freud, who was an extremely driving kind of extrovert, but it is not true for very many people. And in fact, we see throughout…

…neurosis is not entirely without truth and value. And if once we have understood Freud's terminology, we must remember that for Freud, not only religion, but dreams, unbidden fantasies, slips of the tongue and of the pen, everything short of an unrealizable…

…unconscious than with the positive. This, I think, was inevitable, seeing that the theory was developed in a therapeutic context, that Freud, after all, was working with neurotic people in the in the Vienna of the late 19th century. And he was primarily…

…the unconscious, I would say that the work of the pioneer psychologist F.W.H. Myers is much more illuminating than of the work of Freud. Myers was about 15 years older than Freud, but died about 40 years before he did. And his great work, which was…

…the pioneer psychologist F.W.H. Myers is much more illuminating than of the work of Freud. Myers was about 15 years older than Freud, but died about 40 years before he did. And his great work, which was published posthumously in 1902, still remains, after…

…And this is a book which I recommend very strongly to anybody who wants to know about the positive aspects of what Freud dealt with on the negative side. Quite recently, a paperback volume has come out by Freud called by the editor, Creativity and…

…about the positive aspects of what Freud dealt with on the negative side. Quite recently, a paperback volume has come out by Freud called by the editor, Creativity and the Unconscious, and it's a collection of Freud's papers. But when one looks into the…

…with the result, of course, that all kinds of disturbances go on in his unconscious and he very often develops a neurosis. Freud himself was in part responsible for this kind of somatotonic revolution, as it may be called, this idea that only The outgoing…

…self is normal. He says in so many words that the extroverted way of life is the way of health for every man. Well, Freud himself was an extrovert of a rather aggressive type. And undoubtedly, that way of life was the way of health for him. But it…

…which is obviously an extremely important part of the whole picture. This is the side of the unconscious represented by repression. Freud himself has said, we obtain our theory of the unconscious from the theory of repression. that this area of the…

…theory of the unconscious from the theory of repression. that this area of the unconscious is simply due to repression, according to Freud, and I think he is perfectly right. What happens is very clear that we have, in childhood above all, we have certain…

…or less in these terms, that we consciously take in material, which then is passed on to some layer of the unconscious. Freud speaks of this layer as the preconscious, but I would think there are deeper layers beyond the repressed unconscious where this…

…terms about the problems of psychology. And he sets up as against the neo-Freudians what he calls the materialism of Freud himself. He says, with the loss of the Freudian materialism of the body, psychology becomes, in neo-Freudian hands, as also…

…an infinitesimal part of the total physical organism. After all, we are much more than these two aspects of the body which Freud has been so closely preoccupied with. And we do know that our bodies do have the most profound influence upon our behavior…

…neo-Freudians too. There's really almost no mention of the body and its influences upon people, except in the very limited way which Freud mentions it. in the literature. For example, one can read case history after case history in these books and never be…

…proceed as though we were in some way disembodied souls or souls only with... one or other end of a digestive tube, as Freud would have us believe, and nothing else. And it's all the more extraordinary when one reads, for example, in Erich Fromm, who is…

…hypnosis and the facts of hysteria which were being systematically studied in Paris by Charcot and then in Vienna by Breuer and Freud, it was not until quite late in the 19th century that a theory of the unconscious or the subliminal self as Myers…

…astounded when I read the literature of modern psychiatry to see that the fathers of the science, the founding fathers such as Freud and Jung and Rank, paid almost no attention at all to the physical side of human beings and therefore completely ignored…

…voluntarily depart from to come back to again. Now when I use the term sublimation, I speak in the term, in the sense that Freud, Adler and Young intended the term to sublimate. to change the aspect or the mental image of it, or to change the mental…