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Freud and Modern Psychology [electronic resource] : The Emotional Basis of Human Behavior / edited by Helen Block Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Emotions, Personality, and PsychotherapyPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1983Edition: 1st ed. 1983Description: 246 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781468445329
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.89 23
LOC classification:
  • RC466.8-467.97
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Interpretation of Dreams: The Problem of Emotions in Dreaming -- 2. The Discovery of the REMS: The Problem of Freud’s Theory -- 3. Rems Studies: The Problem of Tracing Emotions in Dream Content -- 4. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The Problem of Sex as Instinct -- 5. Anatomy is Destiny: The Problem of Freud’s Sexism -- 6. Mistakes and Jokes: “Primary Process”: The Problem of the Relation between Cognition and Affect -- 7. Psychoanalytic Characterology: The Problem of Cognitive Styles -- 8. Totem and Taboo: The Problem of the Origins of Guilt and Civilization -- 9. Psychoanalysis in Cross-Cultural Perspective: The Problem of Human Nature -- Epilogue.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Freud's discovery of an emotional basis for mental illness led him to pursue the emotional basis of human behavior in general. This pursuit led him to undertake observational studies of dreams (1900), everyday mistakes (1901), sexuality (1905b), character formation (1908, 1931), jokes (1905a), and the origin of guilt (1913). Volume 2 of Freud and Modern Psychology examines the texts of each of these major writings in general psychology, continuing to explore the contradiction between Freud's observations about the power of emotions and his narrow the­ oretical formulations about human behavior. Volume 2 also reviews the remarkable power of the uniquely moral emotions of shame and guilt not only to create psychiatric symptoms, as discussed in Volume 1, but to infiltrate our nightly dreams, create everyday parapraxes, influence the development of sexuality, specify the emotional release in jokes, shape personality, and "create" human culture. As we saw in Volume 1, we shall see again in Volume 2 that Freud's theoretical difficulties arose from the absence of a viable theory of human nature as cultural, that is, social by biological origin. In a the­ oretical framework based on the cultural nature of human nature, the emotions and the social cohesion are reciprocally related to each other. The emotions are the means of the social cohesion which, in turn, is the means by which the emotions, including shame and guilt, are formed in infancy.
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1. The Interpretation of Dreams: The Problem of Emotions in Dreaming -- 2. The Discovery of the REMS: The Problem of Freud’s Theory -- 3. Rems Studies: The Problem of Tracing Emotions in Dream Content -- 4. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The Problem of Sex as Instinct -- 5. Anatomy is Destiny: The Problem of Freud’s Sexism -- 6. Mistakes and Jokes: “Primary Process”: The Problem of the Relation between Cognition and Affect -- 7. Psychoanalytic Characterology: The Problem of Cognitive Styles -- 8. Totem and Taboo: The Problem of the Origins of Guilt and Civilization -- 9. Psychoanalysis in Cross-Cultural Perspective: The Problem of Human Nature -- Epilogue.

Freud's discovery of an emotional basis for mental illness led him to pursue the emotional basis of human behavior in general. This pursuit led him to undertake observational studies of dreams (1900), everyday mistakes (1901), sexuality (1905b), character formation (1908, 1931), jokes (1905a), and the origin of guilt (1913). Volume 2 of Freud and Modern Psychology examines the texts of each of these major writings in general psychology, continuing to explore the contradiction between Freud's observations about the power of emotions and his narrow the­ oretical formulations about human behavior. Volume 2 also reviews the remarkable power of the uniquely moral emotions of shame and guilt not only to create psychiatric symptoms, as discussed in Volume 1, but to infiltrate our nightly dreams, create everyday parapraxes, influence the development of sexuality, specify the emotional release in jokes, shape personality, and "create" human culture. As we saw in Volume 1, we shall see again in Volume 2 that Freud's theoretical difficulties arose from the absence of a viable theory of human nature as cultural, that is, social by biological origin. In a the­ oretical framework based on the cultural nature of human nature, the emotions and the social cohesion are reciprocally related to each other. The emotions are the means of the social cohesion which, in turn, is the means by which the emotions, including shame and guilt, are formed in infancy.

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