Today in class we learned about Freud and his theories. I found this one interesting and I thought that people on here could try it. So Freud believed that everything we said or thought had a deeper meaning, so in order to test this, you write down the first 10 words that come to mind. In my case, my 10 words were: Love Happiness Time Dream Peace Feeling Jump Cry Purple Laugh
Actually I see some meaning and patterns in those words. While Freud wasn't right on all counts, and missed the mark more than a few times, I'm inclined to agree that he's right, based on my own experiences with free association and exercises like the above. The unconscious will often come forth with very interesting things given the opportunity.
As a therapist I am a Jungian analyst. It's how I trained and I adore his theories With that said, Freud had so many good points and so many bad points. At the core of his ideas, neglect young and manifest old is a sound point. When you harm a child and fail to care for him or her it can manifest as issues when they grow older. However, some of his psychosexual theory goes a bit far. One of the misconceptions I find is that when Freud referred to sex, he was referring to most desires. The problem is I don't believe desire runs every single aspect of our life If you guys get some read up on Carl Jung...amazing stuff but yes I do believe some ideas and words have meaning behind them Foxface
Just to butt in, I find it interesting that you bring up Jung [though, to be fair, I imagine it would've been inevitable :lol:,] as I've been thinking of reading his memoir the last few days. Sorry for not contributing to the exercise, I'm horrible with these things. I always overthink them. -____-
Jung's work is incredible, particularly his integration of the spiritual with the psychological, and his work with dream analysis. His writing can be a little dense, but for those who take the time to understand it, I think he brought a lot to our thinking about the psyche, the unconscious and the interactions between them in a way that Freud oversimplified. There aren't a lot of Jungian therapists around (in the US anyway), it's nice to see one and particularly nice to see one here.
I had college English communication professor that to get you writing would just write random words on the board quickly and had us pick one then as quickly as possible write what ever came to mind. I ended up having a story about my father come out of this that I never realized was important to me until then. This method seems similar to the topic. I think Pavlov dog experiments of how we pair things in our mind is the most important part of psychology as to fix things we are searching for the original way we pair things that we shouldn't have. If you find Origin the issues ends.
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I always feel completely incapable of doing things like this. Even if i'm trying to do it just for myself, i tend to over think and analyse as i am going along. Or i'll be swayed by what others have said before me. I'm just a psychologists headache
We learned about that as well, and I find it to be extremely over exaggerated. Not everyone's deepest thoughts are sexual. I love the story our teacher told us about how Freud was teaching a lecture one day about how everything was sexual and then a student raises his hand. As Freud smokes a cigar, the student asks well if everything is sexual, then what about his cigar. At that moment, his whole entire everything is sexual theory was completely debunked.
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