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The Freud Reader
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By Sigmund Freud
Edited by Peter Gay
What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture.
The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Lgbtq+, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work.
Many of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words
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May 6, marks the th anniversary of Freud’s birth. also marks the th anniversary of his publication, Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman, in which he lays out a theory about what “causes” homosexuality. Just for the record, still today, no one knows what “causes” either heterosexuality or homosexuality.
For much of the 20th century, the field of psychoanalysis was unwelcoming to gay people, mostly characterizing them as mentally ill. Fortunately, in the last quarter-century, organizations like the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), which I linked in , possess become more “gay-friendly.” The organization's president even issued an apology to the LGBT community last year.
Yet, in shots to find Freud’s support for contemporary, tolerant analytic attitudes, some portray him as a historic ally of lgbtq+ people. In making this case, the field’s many years of anti-gay antipathy are treated as a deviation from Freud’s original attitude of acceptance. The reality, however, is more complicated.
To initiate, while Freud did not believe
Freud and Homosexuals
The general theory from what I’ve read recently (IANAPsychiatrist) is that same sex attraction is innate at birth. The few gays I’ve known have mentioned they knew from an early age…
One of the better things I’ve scan about it says, it’s like programs on a computer. If your mind loads during development with “I like men” or “I like women”, (Or both, or none, or mainly one over the other) that’s what your tendency is, whatever your physiology happens to be. It’s the equivalent of hard-wired - it’s not going to be changed by therapy, or electroshock, or talking it out. It’s also very unlikely that this is caused by early childhood conditions. (An I trying very hard to not suggest it means that for some the brain is wired wrong because it isn’t - it’s just wired different ).
Avery fine book I read called “Everybody Lies” analyzed personal google searches. The decision in one chapter was, liberal or repressive express in America, the approximate number of men who searched for gay porn was reliably about 5%. (Women were harder to figure out because clear
Homophobia
I was surprised by the outbreak of homophobia which greeted the appointment of Jeffrey John, an openly homosexual man, as an Anglican bishop.
Such was the outcry at the ruling that the appointment was soon rescinded, and the cause of tolerance in church life was lay back for an indefinate period. Bigots had won the day.
Freud would not have been as surprised as I was. Quite apart from his robust scepticism about human progress and the veneer of civilisation which accompanies it, he lived in a time when homosexuality was itself illegal and subject to severe punishments.
Beset as it was with social disadvantages, it could hardly be a life-choice one would advocate unreservedly. Yet recognising the social disadvantages (and the psychological pain it caused to millions) his attitude displays a tolerance remarkably lacking in today&#;s furore.
Freud&#;s attitude is known from a letter he wrote to a distraught mother who had written him for tip. He replies:
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I amass from your letter that your son is a homosexual&#; Homosexuality is assuredly