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Minds That Made the 20th Century

Sigmund Freud

Mar 1, 1993


Israeli psychoanalyst and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, H. Shmuel Erlich, speaks about the “tricky, radical, and revolutionary thinking of Sigmund Freud and his influence on the modern and post-modern world.” This lecture, formally titled “The Freudian Revolution: An Homage to Unpopular Ideas,” was organized in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Erlich credits three primary biographical influences on Freud’s life and work: his Jewishness, his Germanness, and his education and training. He then summarizes Freud’s work through what he considers his five primary revolutionary ideas: “the place and role of instinctual drives, the predetermine cast of human development, the unconscious, infant sexuality and its implications,” and “the nature of rationality, reality, and one's own experience.” Erlich ultimately argues that “the most revolutionizing impact of Freud’s legacy is therefore to be found in its alteration of the relative position of rationality and along with rationality of the place and nature of reality.” The lecture is followed with questions from the audience.

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