Western Civilization II / Unit 15 WC2 1425 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Freud: The Darwin of the Mind, Hysteria, the Talking Cure
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The idea
Freud, a Viennese Jewish physician, read the mind as evolved for a hostile psychic environment: unconscious drives against social pressure. Hysteria he traced to trauma, usually sexual. Talking about it relieved it: psychoanalysis. His Interpretation of Dreams read dreams as the mind's cravings.
In practice
"The Darwin of the mind", the anchor's phrase.
Where people slip
"Now largely rejected" empirically, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
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