Sigmund Freud's Take On The George Makari

Sigmund Freud is known as a revolutionary thinker in the world of psychology, a man who devoted his life to the breakdown and understanding of the complexity of the mind. His life’s most breakthrough theory, psychoanalysis, has been a source of conversation ever since it surfaced. Through the analysis of multiple perspectives on Freud and psychoanalysis, we are able to understand his work through different frameworks. George Makari, who explains in a psychiatric view, Phillip Rieff, a social scientist who views Freud through the sociologist’s mind and Karl Schorske, who presents the work of Freud in a historical perception, offer a diverse view on Freud and psychoanalysis. All these men explore the importance of analyzing Freud’s take on the

In doing this, Makari describes the vast opinions in the field of psychology, not placing an incredible emphasis on Freud, but instead the entire detailed history of psychology. This approach is the most effective because the reader can comprehend the numerous developments made from the intellectual environment that influenced Freud. Makari being a psychiatrist and coming from this field, possesses the ability to explain how Freud was able to pick apart ideas from his mentors and run with them. He does this by explaining the many components of each individual practice and theory that Freud had learned from his mentors. Makari, in this sense has a stronger opinion than Rieff and Schorske by using psychological terms and experts in the field to explain how Freud became so

He focuses on Freud’s dreams and based on their interpretation, he displays how Freud’s dreams are a “psychoarcheological dig” that express “professional, political and personal” aspects of his life. He connects these ideas by stating “The professional one lies roughly in his present; the political in the period of youth and childhood… the personal layer leads back to infancy and into the unconscious where infantile experience lives still.” While these connections are tailored to Freud, Schorske himself describes the interpretations being a bit narrow. This approach is not taken by Makari, the sole purpose being that the dreams and their interpretations are subjective. In the Revolution in Mind, Makari sticks to historical events in order to make a clear assessment of Freud. Makari summarizes the thinking of the philosopher Auguste Comte who believed “that an insoluble problem lay at the heart of psychological knowledge” meaning that the mind was looking in at itself created subjectivity. According to Comte, there is no foundation to the interpretations and their respective ideas. While Schorske takes a historical approach it is unlike the one of Makari. He uses Freud’s personal history to explain Freud’s theories about his dreams, by emphasizing the hardships of being