Nepadoriosios Sigmundo Freudo Mintys:Psichoanalizės Gimimas
The Indecent Thoughts of Sigmund Freud: The Birth of Psychoanalysis

Summary/Abstract: The article begins by reconstructing the intellectual as well as emotional upheaval Freud’s psychoanalytical hypotheses must have stirred in the learned circles of his contemporary colleagues psychologists and psychiatrists. The next step is to critically review the main concepts that underlie Freud’s theories of psyche and personality. A special heed is paid to the elevation of the subconscious over the conscious as a primordial and fundamental psychic phenomenon and to attaching singular functional significance to the libido as a crucial factor determining and thus explaining the development of the human personality. The final paragraphs of the paper are concerned with the broader intellectual impact Freud’s psychoanalytical theories made on the philosophical, more specifically, epistemological discussion of the nature and extent of human knowledge.

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