Make Sure You Are Competent Before Playing Freud

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Not everything is so simple in our profession. Someone leaves it, burning out and groaning, having studied from bell to bell, for five years, as it should be at the institute, someone comes, having passed fake distance courses, at best, already having a specialist diploma, and at worst - even to represent I don't want to … Alas, in our age you can buy everything - diplomas, titles, articles, even order a publication about yourself, your beloved … not to mention the notorious rewriting.

And each of the "converts", without a week in psychology, strives to play "smart psychologist", often using "smart" words, not the fact that knowing their meaning and often confusing repression with projection … And someone does not even know these terms. And some publications are evidence of this …

Recently I came across the fact that experts and even amateur psychologists appeal to psychoanalysis too superficially, not paying attention to significant aspects of the doctrine, often making fun of the search for grotesque in Freudianism.

A blatant, low-level way to distort the teachings of Sigmund Freud. Unfortunately, due to the primitive way of thinking, the value picture of psychoanalysis is lost. Unfortunately, our audience, even the one who calls itself "psychologists", is somehow very funny from the pictures with Freud.

Let's stop here for a minute:

Sigmund Freud is not a psychologist in our understanding! And colleagues do not need to speculate on this topic! Freud graduated from the medical (!) Faculty, started as a surgeon, then as a neurologist and later as a psychiatrist. Also in his extensive biography there is information about work in venereology. Only since 1885 Freud created psychoanalysis as a new method for working with neurotic, hysterical states, in particular, for the study of general paresis.

In fact, we are talking about a qualitatively new understanding and meaning of sexual (sexual) culture, which has become the basis of human biological and social development since ancient times.

At the same time, human sexual development, coupled with dogmas and moral principles, was distorted, leading to neurotic states.

Let me remind you that psychoanalysis emerged at the turn of the XIX-XX in view of. and for some reason few people pay attention to the socio-historical development of mankind during this period. The world has entered the stage of colonialism (imperialism), while there is an active urbanization caused by the industrial revolution of the middle of the 19th century.

Public consciousness began to change rapidly. But the patriarchal system, prejudices and many other socially and culturally unfavorable factors restrained the mental development of a person.

Against this background, there is a sharp economic leap (with characteristic crisis shocks, peaks and recessions), and human consciousness has adapted to new living conditions.

By the way, if you remember, Sigmund Freud's patients were quite wealthy people, even Napoleon Bonaparte's great-uncle, who became his student and even saved his life during the Second World War by sheltering a psychoanalyst at home.

Neuroses, hysteria and all sorts of psychopathological problems were an integral part of the life of fairly rich and successful people.

(I draw your attention to those clients or professionals who want to become "popular" bloggers and have millions of subscribers, naively believing that celebrities have no problems).

Photo from the Internet.

The new era shook the psychological state of people, taking them, on the one hand, from patriarchy, but on the other hand, displacing traumatic circumstances, up to oblivion and splitting. The new consciousness became more democratic, but the repression of trauma provoked neuroses. (This is what the story with Marie Bonaparte tells convincingly).

Freud also noted in a collective monograph (co-authors E. Kretschmer and J. Breuer) "Hysteria. A Story of Women's Madness"

Our private practice is limited to the treatment of members of the most educated and reading segment of society.

And it is especially important that Freud clearly outlined contraindications to psychoanalysis, namely:

Freud always believed that psychoanalytic treatment is contraindicated for people who are stupid, uneducated, too old, melancholic, obsessively obsessed, suffering from anorexia or hysteria, albeit occasionally. He also ruled out psychoanalytic experimentation for psychopaths or perverts "unwilling to be reconciled with themselves." Since 1915, he has added to the category of "unanalyzed" those who are prone to serious narcissistic disorder, obsessed with the death drive, chronic destruction and not amenable to sublimation. (From the book of the French philosopher, historian of psychoanalysis Elisabeth Rudinesco "Freud in his time and in ours").

Despite a number of shortcomings and objective claims to the scientific research and discoveries of S. Freud, the most important achievements of the doctor were:

• Discovery of the three-level structure of the human psyche ("It", "I", "Super-I");
• The unconscious as the main part of the human psyche (contains instincts, as well as once perceived emotions, now repressed);
• In addition, Freud began to see a microUniverse in man, creating a powerful and resourceful psychoanalytic teaching based on the knowledge and experience of medicine (neuropathology, psychiatry), anatomy and physiology, philosophy, and the humanities.
• The concept of defense mechanisms (denial, substitution, repression, etc.) is also widely used in psychology.
• Resistance and transference concept;
• Author of scientific research in 26 volumes.

And here free association method, the authorship of which is often attributed to Freud, in fact, belongs to Sir Francis Galton, an English philosopher, anthropologist and psychologist.

The exaggerated trendy image of the couch in psychoanalysis is optional.

Being mistaken, a person does not move forward, but obeys the destructive elements, falling into a swamp of prejudice, vanity and painful self-affirmation. For a person who has chosen this path, greasy jokes, vulgarity, vulgarity are reflected in his publications, but by no means speak about the competence of a specialist.

Beware of False Psychologists!

Thank you for attention!