Concept
Psychoanalysis
Overview
psychological theory that was founded in 1890 by the Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalysis is characterized as a science, not by reason of the subject matter it handles but by the technique it employs. This can be employed in dealing with the history of civilization, the science of religion or mythology, as well as with the theory of neurosis, without altering its character.
Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Names Psychoanalysis several times; states what Psychoanalysis is.
Now it is really a matter of indifference whether the history of psychoanalysis be considered to have started with the cathartic method or only with my modification of the same. I only enter into this uninteresting question because some opponents of psychoanalysis are wont to recall, now and then, that the art of psychoanalysis did not originate with me at all, but with Breuer. Naturally, this only happens to be the…
Sigmund Freud, The history of the psychoanalytic movement
Names Psychoanalysis several times; states what Psychoanalysis is.
It was still employed as a treatment for certain ailments: and philosophers, as different as Fichte and Schopenhauer(86), watched its fate with attention. But the herd of professional scientists fought shy of it. The experiments of Braid at Manchester in 1841 gradually helped to give research into the subject a new character. Under the name of Hypnotism (or, rather at first Neuro-hypnotism) he described the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
States what Psychoanalysis is; the author is tied to Psychoanalysis in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Psychoanalysis
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Jean Wahl
- Gilles Deleuze
- Judith Butler
- Melanie Klein
- Karl Popper
- Slavoj Žižek
- Hélène Cixous
- Viktor Frankl
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Michel Onfray
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Mario Bunge
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Buddhism
- Baruch Spinoza
- Imre Lakatos
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Carl Jung
- Erich Fromm
- Paul Ricœur
- Michel Foucault
Related ideas
- Macmillan Publishers
- Cognition
- Mind–body problem
- Falsifiability
- Feudalism
- Analysis
- Adam and Eve
- Greek language
- Harvard University Press
- Stanford University Press
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Basic Books
- Homer
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Power (social and political)
- Melanie Klein
- Jacques Lacan
- National Health Service
- Karl Popper
- Positive psychology
- Random House
- Karen Horney
- Structural linguistics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.