Ideas of Sigmund Freud, by Theme

[Austrian, 1856 - 1939, Born at Freiberg. Ran a psychiatric practice in Vienna. Spent his last years in London.]

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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

3488	Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Searle]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

5689	Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Shoemaker]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

23950

Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Solomon]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

22344

Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Murdoch]