[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Psychology research

[Bruce G. Seidner]

I think you have artfully and credibly expressed fundamental insights into Freud that would have delighted Freud in his salon. From an institutional perspective and the training the flowed from the institution I don't think everyone got it the way you have gotten it. It is a fact that the Freud I read was translated by James Strachey and it was the Heinz Hartmann, American Ego Psychology tradition that I am likely using as a straw man for what has been the unfortunate expression of Freudian psychoanalysis in the States. The main thing that I learned in 3 years of University Chinese and two semesters in Taiwan as an undergrad is that I suck at language acquisition. So when I was reading Freud, trieb was "instinct", das ich was id, and dat was that. I was around plenty of it, visited the institutes and decided better of it when I finished my degree.  British Object relations, the work of H.S. Sullivan and the Relational schools was where I found home and we were not all that interested in the Freud of the Standard Edition or what was being published by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Such are the vicissitudes of life.

It is the unfortunate history that up until the past 20 years comic book Freud was Institute Freud. I like your Freud better.

Bruce




On Sunday09 5, , at 5:44 AM, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> 
> Freud did not reduce everything to Eros and Thanatos -- that's comic book 
> Freud.


Bruce

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