SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stephen Jay Gould, Ronald Fairbairn, Sigmund Freud

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1F
• Professor: William R Schonfeld

Document Summary

Psychoanalysis examines the critical aspects of human nature. Never was able to come up with unified theory uniting all branches of the field. Ronald fairbairn provides another view of what it means to be human. Freud and everyone else makes mistakes interesting insights into human personality. Freud really wanted to free humanity from irrational and delusional thinking often provoking personal agony and cruelty towards others. We must understand what causes this way of thinking. Delusional thinking doesn"t relate to reality by definition it is a distortion of reality. Humans pride themselves as being super beings, better than other species this is proven again and again that really this is not true. We are not fully rational there is a primitive side to our nature that we must all acknowledge. Yes, there is a long biological heritage leading to the human that is still part of us today. Freud drew upon a lot of sources.