Western Civilization II / Unit 12 WC2 1111 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Freud and the Unconscious: Thought at the Century's Turn
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The idea
Sigmund Freud read Victorian respectability as repression of instinct, with shame as the enforcer. His The Interpretation of Dreams argued that dreams reveal cravings of the inner mind. The anchor uses him to explain the age; the art witness uses him for the Surrealists.
In practice
The unconscious as a nineteenth-century discovery.
Where people slip
Nietzsche and Einstein are in no source; disclosed at 1824.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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