It's how we understand our selves or others. I'm currently listening to "The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor", and the author says that her father was strict and controlling and that made Mary Astor not trusting of men and unwilling to share her feelings with others particularly men, a very Freudian interruption). I'll challenge you to read any recent biography because you''ll almost always see the author slip into Freudian speak (e.g. But those distractions don't necessarily mean that this book is not highly engaging and worth reading. Yes, Freud does believe some weird things and he restates them in this book such as the early infant's whole world is the mother's breast and thus we end up fetishizing the breast when we grow up, our time in the womb means we always are looking to return to an abode of some kind, something about the anal fixation and how it never leaves us and unrepressed sex desires lead to our anxieties and other such things that sound weird to our modern ears. Freud uses that theme to explain his psychoanalysis in describing individuals and the societies in which they live as mirror images of each other. Similarly Freud thinks the phases that an individual goes through mirror the same phases that civilizations have gone through. the embryonic stages mirrors the development stages of the species). At one time it was wrongly believed that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny (i.e.
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