2015 Personality Lecture 08: Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud (Part 1)

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This is the absolute best lecture on basic Freud I have ever watched and I am a psychoanalyst.

Summary: 1- Freud was the first person to say a lot of things that we take for granted today 2- Mental disorders have a sociological element The culture battles against the individual (superego x id) and the battle between the individual and the culture is going to take forms that differentiate between cultures (brief comment: the cultures are different so they have a different impact on people; and people are different as well, so each person is going to have a unique battle) 3 - Sex; sexual diseases; birth control pill 10:00 4 - Book suggestion: The discovery of the unconscious (Jordan says it is the best introduction to the psychoanalitic thought) 5 - People lived on about a dollar a day at 19th century 6 - Freud was very influenced by Nietzche 7 - We take a lot of things for granted nowadays, like: People don’t always say what they mean. Their speech and their actions are influenced by factors that they are not necessarely conscious of. Passions, dreams and mental illnesses are manifestations of the unconscious 8 - Freud’s ideas were rapidly integrated into the culture (in despite of the resistance that really existed and exists) That is why people talk so much about his erros. Everything that he was right about was integrated into the culture and is now taken for granted, so the only things left “about him” are his erros 9 - Sublimation 10 - Educated man will marry uneducated woman, but educated woman won’t marry uneducated man. Woman look for someone who is at least as competent as they are or even more competente 20:00 11 - The superego (Society) vs the id: jail analogy The more authoritarian the Society is, the bigger is the struggle between the individual (attempting to be an individual) and the culture (attempting to turn him into an absolutely predictable machine) Very related to number 2 12 – Freud viewed the primary conflict in mental life as the ego tortured by the id (biological forces), but also inhibited and repressed by the superego 13 – Piaget: The fundamental conflict within people isn’t necessarely social vs the individual. The fundamental conflict is between motivational systems and then between their expression across time within the individual and then between their expression across time within the individual in relationship to all other individuals and to society (So it is more like a complex problem that could be solved by a civilized game than a massive force, that being superego, crushing the individual into submission) 14 – Neurotic people 15 – People on the bottom of dominance hierarchy are much more likely to consider the spirit of the structure as an authoritarian and repressive spirit, because it isn’t making room for you 16 – Industrial Revolution 17 – Superego x id and school system; ADHD; Jaak Panksepp and rats 18 – Hypothesis test and hypothesis generation 30:00 19 – Freud’s hypothesis generation 20 – Behaviorism and ethology; Skinner; Frans de Waal 21 – You have twice as many female ancestors as you do male ancestors 22 – Freud, Jung and other clinicians are basically ethologists. They are studying human beings at their relatively natural environment and trying to figure out how they work 23 – Clinical practice vs lab work 40:00 24 – Reason, emotion and motivation 25 – After Freud we understood that we are not driven mostly by rationality. This is a BIG discovery. “Little rational guy” analogy (43:10) 26 – The rational intelect is not the fundamental element of people’s being 27 – Darwin 50:00 28 – Terror management theory 29 – Free association The importance of talking (52:30) 30 – Explainning a movie to a friend 31 – Fighting with someone you love 32 – Epigenetics 1:00:00 33 - We can represent ideas in symbolic forms 34 - Dreams 35 - The unconscious; when someone is mad 36 - People who don’t end bad relationships 37 - Ego vs id and the “I wish I didn’t say that when I was angry” 38 - Voluntarily inaccessible memories and the unconscious 1:10:00 39 – Unconscious and new ideas (brainstorm) 40 – Unconscious and myths; Jung

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Great introduction to Freud. I like the concept of psychology as “engineering”

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I've followed Prof. Peterson for 4+ years now but was directed recently to later episodes in this academic series, I guess, because YouTube recognized I was a devotee of Russian literature so, after watching those, I began at the beginning. In this segment I feel that he really inhabits the material. He is discussing Freud extemporaneously, following his notes, in a fashion that truly expresses what his mind knows. It's primal and pure.

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This might be the single most enlightening lecture on Freud ive ever heard,

1:09:14 - 1:09:28 The ability to take a simple sentence and convert it into its abstract classes at a word level. Genius.

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