Ebony's S.O.S.

[Ebony Elizabeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 2522

One thing that I am finding as I delve into Freud is that a modern 
feminist would *cringe* at some of his theories.  Yes, he has more to 
say than just "repression civilizes the id and makes society 
possible", but still, there *is* the matter of the pesky id to deal 
with.

Please, if you have a good handle on this stuff, e-mail me off list 
so we can chat.  I'm beginning to see some of the limitations of 
applying this theory to HP... and wouldn't mind advice.

--Ebony





--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> 
wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ebony Elizabeth" <ebonyink at h...>
> To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 3:20 PM
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Ebony's S.O.S.
> 
> 
> 
> > >
> > > if you know Freud, you
> > know sex is *everything*--"the rest is just details".
> 
> If you "know" Freud - Oh, if only it were that simple! - as was 
once said of
> Mozart, Freud is too easy for beginners, and too complicated for
> professionals.  Hans Zinnser once noted that "Freud's high 
explosives have
> been reworked into firecrackers for the simple-minded to burn their
> fingers."
> 
>     - CMC
> 
> "Over and over again when psychoanalysis has regarded something 
happening in
> the mind as an expression of the sexual instincts, indignant 
protests have
> been raised to the effect that other instincts and other interests 
exist in
> mental life beside the sexual, that one should not derive 
everything from
> sexuality, and so on.  Well, it is a real pleasure for once to be in
> agreement with one's opponents. Psycho-analysis has never forgotten 
that
> non-sexual instincts also exist; it has built up a sharp 
distinction between
> sexual instincts and ego-instincts; and in the face of all 
opposition it has
> insisted, not that they arise from sexuality, but that the neuroses 
owe
> their origin to a conflict between ego and sexuality........"
> 
>     - Freud, General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis, Chapter 22