Sublime

Freud est le premier penseur moderne à avoir soutenu que le cerveau des émotions était le vrai pilote de la conscience. Pour lui, ce sont l’inquiétude et la honte qui poussent les gens à prendre de mauvaises décisions, à faire des excès ou à compenser ce dont ils ont l’impression de manquer. C’est lui qui a découvert que l’identité se construisait

Freud set out to develop a medical specialism but succeeded in producing a complex system of thought, a new way of understanding the mind, relationships, history and culture.

Freud (1927), the father of psychology, divided the psyche into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. He saw the id as our primal, animal nature; the superego as the judgment system that society has instilled within us; and the ego as our representative to the outside world that struggles to maintain a balance between the other two powerf

The reader should know that I am a product of the Freudian or psychoanalytic school. This does not mean that I take for granted everything Freud said or wrote, and in any case that would be absurd since Freud was developing, that is to say changing, his views (in an orderly manner, like any other scientific worker) all along the line right up to hi

For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,

The informal leader of this whole crew, of course, was Sigmund Freud.