http://mindhacks.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/#comment-6077 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:11:50 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/#comment-6077 I consider Freud to be a genius. It is currently fashionable to rip on him. Those who do have likely not read all of his work. You probably don’t like Nietzsche, either. Please define loopy.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/#comment-6076 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:54:49 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/#comment-6076 This is fascinating. I’ve always thought Freud was loopy (good word for it).
Jung interests me much more and it’s good to know that the “collective unconscious”, which I’d always thought was a rather iffy idea, has some basis in evolutionary psychology.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/#comment-6075 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:38:43 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/complex-beginnings/#comment-6075 I knew something about the origin of the term complex, but not its relationship to word association. Thanks for that interesting history. As for Freud–loopy indeed. I like the one about where “hysteria” is related to genital “dysfunction” is related to a problem in the nose, cured by nasal surgery. Not a fine moment in the history of psychiatry.

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