Three years ago I revisited some of Sigmund Freud's contributions to the understanding of human beings and re-present them here for contemplation and reflection. I was impressed by three seminal ideas of his that I believed, and still believe, are as relevant today as they were when they were formulated:
(1) That his psychoanalytic vision of human nature should not become the exclusive province of psychiatrists, particularly American ones.
(2) That the basic structure of society is the same as that of the individual human personality [id, ego and superego].
(3) That all religions [by which I take Freud to mean those practised uncritically, i.e. without the perspective of depth psychology] are necessarily falsehoods.
I have paraphrased here what he actually said, but hope and believe I have not falsified his ideas. I commend them to you for your serious consideration.
(1) That his psychoanalytic vision of human nature should not become the exclusive province of psychiatrists, particularly American ones.
(2) That the basic structure of society is the same as that of the individual human personality [id, ego and superego].
(3) That all religions [by which I take Freud to mean those practised uncritically, i.e. without the perspective of depth psychology] are necessarily falsehoods.
I have paraphrased here what he actually said, but hope and believe I have not falsified his ideas. I commend them to you for your serious consideration.