I just got sent this fantastic article from The Guardian in 2006 where neuropsychologist Paul Broks discusses Freud’s legacy in light of the burgeoning brain sciences.
As always, Broks writes brilliantly, and the piece starts with a wryly observed domestic scene.
One Sunday morning, when he was four years old, my son climbed into bed with his mother. I was downstairs making coffee. “Mum,” I heard him saying as I returned, “I’d like to kill Daddy.” It was a dispassionate declaration, said serenely, not in the heat of a tantrum or the cool spite of a sulk. He was quite composed. Shouldn’t you be repressing this, I thought.
The article was written on what would have been Freud’s 150th birthday and the rest is equally engaging.
Link to ‘The Ego Trip’ in The Guardian (thanks Ceny!)
Mind Hacks 