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nb_leftist's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
I’m reading a compilation of Freud’s works, the specific compilation is “The Essentials of Psycho-analysis” By Sigmund Freud Selected by Anna Freud.
I’m reading it to get a better understanding of the beginnings of psychology. This is a part of that “series” of reviews.
Most of it has been disproven, this seems more like a thing to read if you want to learn more about the history of psychology rather than something to read if you want to learn about current day psych.
I’m reading it to get a better understanding of the beginnings of psychology. This is a part of that “series” of reviews.
Most of it has been disproven, this seems more like a thing to read if you want to learn more about the history of psychology rather than something to read if you want to learn about current day psych.
mmetonymy's review against another edition
3.0
There are some good insights here but clearly his thinking has been clouded by his own misogyny in the form of just not investigating or talking to women and his overwhelming tendency to make reproduction the subconscious goal of all sexuality.
colin_cox's review against another edition
5.0
Admittedly, far too much of Freud's language in this text is antiquated. That is to say, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is hard to read and understandably easy to mischaracterize. However, this text explores many significant insights relevant to Freud and psychoanalysis. Three Essays illustrates how and to what degree sexuality functions as a radical and necessary problem. As Alenka Zupančič suggests, "sexuality is a paradox ridden deviation from a norm that does not exist." To that end, Freud expands the boundaries of "perversion" (again, Freud uses late 19th and early 20th-century language only to repudiate it later) by problematizing the narrowness of heteronormative sexual categorization. All of that is to say, Three Essays remains relevant because it explores, catalogs, and challenges the way we have pathologized and, in some instances, continue to pathologize some expression of sexuality.
ninaftbooks's review against another edition
as my friend said, “he would’ve killed himself if he knew how society is now and that’s what keeps me going”
paulataua's review against another edition
4.0
Whatever you think of psychoanalysis, you have to give it to Freud to both terrify and to fascinate. It was good to get back to reading him after all these years. The three essays gave much to think about, especially as it was my first time reading them rather than relying on secondary source material. Worth reading!
nanamilkerz's review against another edition
funny
informative
slow-paced
2.25
yeah ok u like ur mom and would like to suck her tits we get it dawg