Dec 30, 2023 08:27 PM
(This post was last modified: Dec 31, 2023 03:51 AM by C C.)
No surprise Uncle Sigmund has a spotlight again. In this post-Western era where knowledge is decolonized, meritocracy is fading, and with regional traditional beliefs revived and elevated once more (after the systemic oppression of the past) -- there's certainly a welcoming door for even old pseudoscience of the West to be reinvigorated, too. Even the current tsunami of research paper retractions can be solved in that new spirit by likewise lowering the standards of guidelines and peer review. (The latter are so Eurocentric slash racist and WEIRD to begin with, after all.)
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‘Psychoanalysis has returned’: why 2023 brought a new Freud revival
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...hoanalysis
EXCERPT: . . . He [Freud] is currently emerging from a few decades of denigration, given one slide at most (and only to be called a quack) in introductory psychology classes, reduced to prurient and possibly antisemitic stereotypes in the culture, his ideas brushed aside for their “lack of evidence”.
The idiom of psychoanalysis remains a conventional, shorthand way to discuss romance and parent-child relationship (“daddy’s girl”, “dating their mother”, and so on). It describes the way we think about categories of working relationships proximate and distant (“transference”) and admiring one-sided relationships with intimate strangers (“parasocial” – that most important term from the early pandemic and our age of remote relations). The power of psychoanalysis remains. As Harold Bloom, whom I would not champion otherwise, bluntly put it: “Throwing Freud out will not get rid of him, because he is inside us. His mythology of the mind has survived his supposed science, and his metaphors are impossible to evade.”
This is not the first Christmas that has brought murmurs of a Freud revival. The late essayist David Rakoff even played Freud in the holiday window of Barneys department store on Madison Avenue in New York and “treated” shoppers on his couch all the way back in 1996. Freud himself, as a boy, was surrounded by Christmas annually in Catholic Bavaria, and even frequented church. Films about Freud, too, have circulated for almost 100 years. Despite Freud’s love of home movies (and he appeared in many) he distrusted the professional medium. Hollywood tried to get Freud to consult on film in the 1920s; he declined (and urged his followers to do so as well). The psychoanalytic Hollywood of the 1940s and beyond helped stimulate the first Freud mania in the US and internationally, with psychoanalysts sitting in on set and actors like Marlon Brando and Cary Grant publicly declaring psychoanalysis as crucial to their life and work.
Given all this agita, the first biographical film of Freud, aptly titled Freud, appeared somewhat belatedly in 1962. Starring Montgomery Clift, the film was originally written by Jean-Paul Sartre and would have had a 12-hour run time (as the film was cut down, Sartre removed himself from the project). Zooming ahead to our century, we’ve been treated to both documentary and biopic – from The Century of the Self (2002) to A Dangerous Method (2011). It is more accurate to say Freud is rarely off-screen than to say he has returned to it.
Yet this resurrection of Freud feels different, because more and more people are not just interested in what Papa Freud said, but in trying out his method of treatment themselves... (MORE - missing details)
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‘Psychoanalysis has returned’: why 2023 brought a new Freud revival
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...hoanalysis
EXCERPT: . . . He [Freud] is currently emerging from a few decades of denigration, given one slide at most (and only to be called a quack) in introductory psychology classes, reduced to prurient and possibly antisemitic stereotypes in the culture, his ideas brushed aside for their “lack of evidence”.
The idiom of psychoanalysis remains a conventional, shorthand way to discuss romance and parent-child relationship (“daddy’s girl”, “dating their mother”, and so on). It describes the way we think about categories of working relationships proximate and distant (“transference”) and admiring one-sided relationships with intimate strangers (“parasocial” – that most important term from the early pandemic and our age of remote relations). The power of psychoanalysis remains. As Harold Bloom, whom I would not champion otherwise, bluntly put it: “Throwing Freud out will not get rid of him, because he is inside us. His mythology of the mind has survived his supposed science, and his metaphors are impossible to evade.”
This is not the first Christmas that has brought murmurs of a Freud revival. The late essayist David Rakoff even played Freud in the holiday window of Barneys department store on Madison Avenue in New York and “treated” shoppers on his couch all the way back in 1996. Freud himself, as a boy, was surrounded by Christmas annually in Catholic Bavaria, and even frequented church. Films about Freud, too, have circulated for almost 100 years. Despite Freud’s love of home movies (and he appeared in many) he distrusted the professional medium. Hollywood tried to get Freud to consult on film in the 1920s; he declined (and urged his followers to do so as well). The psychoanalytic Hollywood of the 1940s and beyond helped stimulate the first Freud mania in the US and internationally, with psychoanalysts sitting in on set and actors like Marlon Brando and Cary Grant publicly declaring psychoanalysis as crucial to their life and work.
Given all this agita, the first biographical film of Freud, aptly titled Freud, appeared somewhat belatedly in 1962. Starring Montgomery Clift, the film was originally written by Jean-Paul Sartre and would have had a 12-hour run time (as the film was cut down, Sartre removed himself from the project). Zooming ahead to our century, we’ve been treated to both documentary and biopic – from The Century of the Self (2002) to A Dangerous Method (2011). It is more accurate to say Freud is rarely off-screen than to say he has returned to it.
Yet this resurrection of Freud feels different, because more and more people are not just interested in what Papa Freud said, but in trying out his method of treatment themselves... (MORE - missing details)