Sigmund Freud and his influence

Question 1

What does Vincent Pecora suggest Freud’s theories depend upon?

Answer 1

‘Freud’s theories of the human psyche also depended on seeing the persistence of primal experience…in modern humans’ [as did Darwanian theory]

Question 2

Where does VIrginia Woolf claim writers interests lie?

Answer 2

‘for the moderns…the point of interest…lies in the dark places of psychology’

Question 3

What does Sigmund Freud distiguish between in mourning and melancholia?

Answer 3

Mourning as an object-loss; melancholia is also an object loss but ‘ambivalent’ as unconscious what the object lost was, or even that there was a loss
Hence causes of melancholia are much wider

Question 4

What did Sigmund Freud say about religion (1927)

Answer 4

‘an illusion’ - with purpose of ‘wish fulfillment’

Question 5

What does Freud identify which can be related to temporality?

Answer 5

Trauma and the ‘compulsion to repeat’ - suggesting a problematisation/questioning of the traditional forwards trajectory of human experince