tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post6102711749934574774..comments2024-03-18T16:12:07.747-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: My amygdala made me do it...Deric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-61796980836130924462012-05-22T14:33:13.600-05:002012-05-22T14:33:13.600-05:00Well, that makes sense. You wouldn't necessari...Well, that makes sense. You wouldn't necessarily expect an editor, columnist & literary critic to know much if anything about Freud's actual working theories, particularly since the Freudian "brand" has fallen out of favor in the last 50 years or so, and has just recently started to fall back <i>in</i>.<br /><br />Since Atlas is now also a publisher, maybe I should contact him about my proposed dog training book: <i>Sigmund Freud and the Family Dog</i>!<br /><br />LCKLCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04182376640295763312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-91097053426267114552012-05-22T10:51:57.442-05:002012-05-22T10:51:57.442-05:00Oh dear, I should have made more clear those clip...Oh dear, I should have made more clear those clips were not from Haidt but from the Atlas article. I've changed the text to reflect this.Deric Bowndshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-86885890968112008512012-05-22T10:27:53.103-05:002012-05-22T10:27:53.103-05:00Interesting post as always.
However, I had to scr...Interesting post as always.<br /><br />However, I had to scratch my head at the paragraph on William James, in particular Haidt's complete and utter misunderstanding of Freud. <br /><br />"Writing toward the end of the 19th century, James addressed the same question that had concerned Hume — how the unconscious operates as a physical process, not just, as Freud would have it, a mental one."<br /><br />In fact Freud was very much concerned with the physiological aspects of the psyche, how certain pressures actually felt in the body, motivated us to act in such a way so as to relieve those feelings. That's Freud's pleasure principle in a nutshell.<br /><br />In fact nearly everything Haidt ascribes to James in that short paragraph could be equally applied to Freudian psychology.<br /><br />LCKLCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04182376640295763312noreply@blogger.com