What is your view on Sigmund Freud, personally I think he was a great thinker, but at the same time, I also think he was a crazy bastard....I mean seriously come on, did anyone have sexual thoughts about their mom when they were 6 years old?? I know I didnt.

Its not about having sexual thoughts about your mother though... it is their repression that counts.

wtf is going on. :confused:

Stop repressing it, son.

thats pretty sick...........sexy mom :|

Seriously, I think Freud is pretty interesting. His stuff certainly makes you think. I am not necessarily interested in what he has to say (most of it has been debunked anyway) but in what the conditions were that allowed him to say it. All in all though it was pretty sexist as was most literature of the time. But he certainly makes one think about the centrality of sex in society.

I think he was one ****ed up guy. His theories "Oedipus Complex" had to come from somewhere, and personally I think he probably envied his father and sexually wanted his mother. In psychoanalyzing his patients though he looked for certain things to prove his theories, not for theories based on experiments.

aye...this fella's not quite the full shilling i reckon. i remember in one of my primers regarding architectural imagery and the articulation of space, one of the passages in our reading material addressed the regular rhythm of stairs through its essence as a sexual metaphor. apparently he viewed it as a symbol of copulation with the basis of comparison being how we come to the top in a series of rhythmical movements and with increasing breathlessness and how with just a few rapid leaps, we could get to the bottom again. :|

i never quite felt the same climbing stairs from then on :D

Signmund's a crazy b@stard that also thinks a lot. He's dead now and that's what counts. I ain't screwing my mam.

Originally posted by Haukur Gudnason
aye...this fella's not quite the full shilling i reckon. i remember in one of my primers regarding architectural imagery and the articulation of space, one of the passages in our reading material addressed the regular rhythm of stairs through its essence as a sexual metaphor. apparently he viewed it as a symbol of copulation with the basis of comparison being how we come to the top in a series of rhythmical movements and with increasing breathlessness and how with just a few rapid leaps, we could get to the bottom again. :|

i never quite felt the same climbing stairs from then on :D

Hey! Who stole my Sociological Theories of Sexuality Essay!?! :f***: :crazyboy:

It is all the same with these 'older' thinkers though - I really like analysing the era they are in, and how it intersects with their biography, to see what the conditions are that enable them to think/ write what they do. Some of the feminist critiques of Freud are the best though - they get REALLY vicious. (H)

Actually, if I am thinking straight (:| Freudian slip? :p ) I think Lacan's psychoanalysis has more creedence in the academy these days...

Yes.

Originally posted by phloax
What is your view on Sigmund Freud, personally I think he was a great thinker, but at the same time, I also think he was a crazy bastard....I mean seriously come on, did anyone have sexual thoughts about their mom when they were 6 years old?? I know I didnt.

Yeah I learned that theory. Pretty damn digusting. According to my teacher, he also had a little bit of a drug problem which would probably explain his madness. :D (H)

Freud was an intersting man
he came up with some good stuff
but the rest..
crazy man