01: What is Psychoanalysis?
Ordinary Unhappiness
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Freud's Discourse on Hysterical Neurotics
Freud's theory is that these are disorders of performance rather than capacity. He uses the word trauma, a wound to somewhere else in their person on some other level than the body and what he calls the psyche. And hysterical neurotics are treated quite horribly by the medical establishment at the time. Oftentimes very heavy handed and brutal ways for usWhat Freud does studying in Paris at the time is he pioneers the discipline of just talking to these people and specifically to women.
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