Hi, digital dudes, I am Fernando Sales and it’s taping one more “That’s the hint” today: Freud and psychoanalysis.
First of all, I am not an expert. I am gonna speak here as an autodidact,
As the one who likes Freud’s ideas and figure, and who thinks he is a genius
who revolutioned our history and culture!
I came to Freud through a collection named “The thinkers”, that I recommend to everyone,
It’s indeed a collection of excerpts from five books of his own, which contains some of his essential ideas.
It’s very good, very nice, and then obviously you can deepen in it.
For me he is fantastic, fantastic. I apologize if I commit some mistake,
You be at ease to comment, cause I miss very much.
It is impossible to talk about Freud without mentioning sex.
He said than the sexual issue is the root of every human issue",
But it is also our energy resource, that which we will call libido.
He used to deal with the sexuality of children, an interdict subject at his time and
Which even today causes some consternation to many people.
You can imagine how it was during the nineteenth century to Freud
To touch the truth that kids also have sexual issues.
The most interesting is that he did not say so from nothing. Freud was a great studious,
A deeper man, who was a doctor before anything, and then he developed his theories.
He was a researcher. He is not a dude who guesses things and that’s all.
One of his most important theories is the unconsciousness.
He says that up to the age of five our personality is formed, and then just a little can be changed.
It’s interesting that most of people do not remember what have experienced up to the age of five.
Where can these thoughts and experiences go?
Freud will say they will be stored at our unconsciousness.
That’s why I think the home education up to the age of five is very important.
This will be the foundation to what people will be all the life long.
For instance Freud used to work with the interpretation of dreams, he addressed much importance to dreams,
He used to say that, through dreams, repressed desires appear.
That’s why emerged the technique named “free association”.
Freud believed that if people began to speak endlessly,
The content of one’s speech would reveal one’s deep repressed desire, one can discover oneself.
Unconsciousness comes to the edge when one speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks.
And he searched to find the meanings and to make relations.
The repression of desires is what generates neurosis, some sort of "illness of the soul".
We can say they manifest themselves through symptoms – manias, indeed.
This because we restrain many desires, this because we punish ourselves very often.
All of this goes to the unconsciousness and must flourish some way,
Because we are blocking an energy which wants to come out.
It comes out as symptoms which, according to Freud, the manias are.
For instance I have the mania to confirm a thousand times if the door is locked, if I did something,
I stay coming and going, coming and going, a thousand times to confirm if I did something that I know I already did.
This is a symptom which probably has something to do with my past.
Moreover, my mania of brushing the teeth, generally after the lunch,
And I realized later that it comes from when my mother used to say:
‘If you don’t brush your teeth I will punch them up to the blood!’ Ha! You see!
So, if I don’t brush the teeth after eating I get a headache! It’s not a normal symptom!
But for me it was during a long period, untill I got to control it a bit.
I told you about my sumptoms, I want you also tell yours. Below at the comments. What do you do?
You wash your hands endlessly, you’ve got an obsession, comment it.
Freud will say we have inside our head one side ID, which represents our desires and instincts,
And one other side, the superego, which represents the social rules,
Normally represented by the figure of parenthood.
It happens that both of them get to constant conflict, or rather, indeed both beat one another a lot!
One side the instinct, the other side the rules, they beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, what remains is you!
This... The result of such conflict, which we can call ego, is the part which comes out to the consciousness.
Or rather, inside our heads two forces are fighting, like the little devil and the little angel,
I am kidding, but in the end these forces quarrel all the time and what remains is you.
The Freudian concepts, therefore, are: Edipian complex, ID, ego, superego, libido, transfer, failed acts, Trieb,
They are some of many concepts from him... Paranoia!
The latter nowadays is too much present and hard in just one tape to talk about.
But you can research to know more; our idea here is awakening your desire to know beyond.
Later you come back to here to talk with us at the comments. It’s very nice.
Well, if you read Freud, apart from either liking or disliking him,
I suggest you to search for two important psychoanalists: Jung and Lacan.
Together they form a fundamental triad in Psychoanalysis.
One last hint is the John Huston’s movie “Freud”,
Which tells us about his history through a very interesting manner.
Comment later. The important is to comment. Comment so as to have discussions here.
It’s not just me speaking here as I am crazy. Understood?
Well... This is how we are ending this tape, one more “That’s the hint”. One hellow to Carina Dumont,
A psychologist friend of mine, we work together, it’s left here the space for her to amend.
A great hug, see you next week with “Artists of my life”.
