Lecture: Freud and Freudianism

Psychological theories before Freud: Freud did not invent psychology

Freud Biography

Theory of Dreams

General Psychological Theory

Infantile sexuality

Topography of the Mind

Id

Ego

Super-ego

Other theories

Oedipus Complex

Transference

Narcissism: intermediate stage between autoeroticism and object-love

Character Types: stages of development; person gets stuck in one of them and develops character traits

Eros and Death

Problems with Freud's theory

Specific

Sources

Women: the vaginal orgasm

Women as ipso facto inferior to men

= Freud himself a bourgeois male; set up his experience as general laws

General

Reinforces existing hierarchy of society

A little too general? Explains everything

Use and Abuse of Freudian theory