Analyzing with False Contemporary Psychology

Braden 2022-03-24 09:02:03

Short comments are responsible for speaking from the heart, while long comments are responsible for hypocritical analysis.

Just visited the Freud House in Vienna a few months ago, now the Freud Museum. Located on the second floor of a narrow street in the center of Vienna, it is a small apartment with a total of more than 100 square meters. Walking past the cloakroom, which was almost impossible to turn around, there was a red couch in the living room, and that was where Freud opened for psychoanalysis. For a scholar, the apartment is a bit cramped. It's all the more cramped here, given that Floyd has six children. For Freud, the most important in life were his several trips to the United States. When the scientific center of the early twentieth century was in the United States rather than Europe, the birth of psychoanalysis seemed strange and irritating. Freud at the time was more of a scientific cult leader than a revered master. In fact, even now, Freud is more remembered as an innovator of psychology. However, his psychoanalytic theory has been rarely mentioned. For example, a psychologist I know refused to visit Freud’s house in Vienna and chose to visit Sternberg at Yale.

Another point is that the prices in Zurich are at least three times higher than in Vienna.

This is the background of popular science for the film.

I can't comment on whether the film is good or not from a technical point of view, but first of all it has played its due role, the plot is very simple but clear, and the key points are clear: the theoretical contradiction between Jung and Freud mainly has three points : 1, Jung was not satisfied with Freud's use of sex as the absolute starting point for psychoanalysis. 2. Freud was dissatisfied with Jung's introduction of religious theology into psychoanalysis. 3. Freud believed that the patient cannot be changed, but Jung believed that the doctor has the responsibility to make the patient a better person.

But, on a deeper level, the separation of the two had a lot of personal elements. First, Jung was a blond Aryan, while Freud was a Jew. Jung had a wealthy wife and lived in a beautiful and expensive villa in Zurich, while Freud had six children and lived in a small apartment in the center of Vienna. Ironically, contemporary psychology points out that the formation of a person's character is closely related to the economic and social conditions in which he lives. Therefore, this also directly determines that in Freud's confrontation with Jung - younger, more mainstream, richer, or even When more talented juniors, they treat theories, students, and differences in attitudes towards each other. Secondly, Jung pointed out from the first time he met Freud that "he was surrounded by idiots waiting to eat crumbs", and Freud refused to tell Jung about his dreams on the ship to the United States. At the time, Jung became more aware of Freud's emphasis on authority and dogma as the leader of the school. Of course this has a lot to do with Freud's identity as a minority Jew. Third, on the issue of dealing with Jung's mistresses, Freud "disdainful and incomprehensible" to Jung's actions, but the film borrows Otto's words to point out that the reason Freud was extremely interested in sex was "his own not being satisfied enough." Both Otto and Freud allude to Jung. To some extent he deepened his repressed sexual desire for female patients.

Both eventually went astray.

Psychoanalysis is a well-deserved "Dangerous Method". Since the development of psychology, psychiatrists have not provided patients with sofas, but have only analyzed patients after one after another scale and behavioral experiments to minimize subjective perceptions. Even in the face of schizophrenia, the psychiatrist's first priority has become "listening" and "empathy." So there is the phrase "How do u feel about it?" that everyone will say

Psychology is a dangerous science, because we finally withdraw our eyes from the outside world and pierce the sharp knife into our own heart and mind. And we have a total of 23 pairs of chromosomes. More than 90% of the chromosomes of humans and mice are identical, not to mention that the difference between us is only one or two base pairs. What others feel, you can also feel that other people's thoughts are projected into your own mind, and you don't know what kind of monsters will be raised. Therefore, even if I only practiced in a mental hospital for a month, after the internship, my friends and I had a sense of escape. What we cannot escape is the ubiquitous empathy and uncontrolled understanding and suggestion in that environment. Therefore, at the beginning of psychoanalysis, when the father of psychoanalysis was still ignorant of his theory, the mistakes made by Jung were still understandable from the professional ethics of doctors. [But as a species that has existed for thousands of years, it is unforgivable that he still cannot be a good man. ]


From contemporary psychology, perhaps Freud was right at one point. Contemporary psychology will not tell the patient what kind of person you should be, even if it is a severe schizophrenic patient, the purpose of treatment is only "self-knowledge", that is: I know that I have schizophrenia, I Admit that I need therapy. As long as the patient does this, then he can be considered cured.

Of course, if you fall in love with your patient, you can tell him to be a good person.

Finally, I would like to send you a famous quote from Jung, the wise Jung used his brain to give you a beautiful sentence that can explain all his actions literary and artistically: "My wife is the cornerstone of the house, and my mistress is me The fragrance of life."

Actually, I think that under the conditions of complete equality between men and women, and the development of contemporary medicine to provide adequate protection for women (Condom & HPV prevention), there is nothing wrong with having multiple partners. After all, the poor tits Keira got sexual release and self-sublimation. Thanks Jung.


In the end, this is all my bullshit, and the ghost knows that no one is watching this movie to see how the old men Jung and Freud quarreled. What do I really want to say, in the short comment...


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A Dangerous Method quotes

  • Otto Gross: It seems to me the measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

  • Carl Jung: Angels always speak German. It's tradition.