Freud and Determinism

di Loran Joly (Autore)

ReEnvision Press, 2025

Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalyst, was said to be a Determinist, philosophically speaking. However, this author believes it likely that one can have a philosophical view on Reality as being Determined, yet have words that do not match this "filter". In other words, that one can have an overall view that everything in the Universe is governed by Laws, or shall we say, "Laws of the Universe". Yet, if our words - our People-words, in particular, are skewed toward Free Will, are we actually thinking Deterministically? Sounds like an oxymoron, such as the famed phrase, "Military Intelligence"? Hence, to say Freud was a Determinist, is a questionable claim, in this author's eyes. (This author underwent 150 sessions of psychoanalysis in his twenties, with a total of two physicians, one of whom was in San Diego, and was a Jew, as was Freud. Yet, this author's analyst had the capacity to smile, whereas a book featuring a multitude of photographs of Freud has not one single photo of Freud as smiling. So, what gives?) Perhaps the analyst in San Diego had words which were, on average, more likely to be Deterministic, than were Freud's? Additionally, just because Freud was first a medical researcher, before becoming an analyst, does not mean he was gifted at Mathematics, to achieve great levels of clarity. His mathematical skills could well have been far more "calculator - oriented", more computational; besides, Mathematics at his time, lacked the clarity that it has, today. The basic point this author is thus making, is simply this: a Determinist must surely use deterministic logic symbols - or thus, deterministic words - or else, one is not thinking deterministically, and is not "Walking the Talk". Finally, it is not surprising, thus, that while Freud was termed the first psychoanalyst, it was Socrates who said, some 2500 years ago, "Know Thyself". Even our parents and grandparents have observed us, and then, "analyzed" us. We might even consider how well-loved, Grandmother Moses was, the artist. Arguably, she was a better psychoanalyst than Freud was? So, there is "Nothing new under the sun", correct?

• Autore: Loran Joly
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 00:59:13
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: ReEnvision Press
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 1230008708199