What an extraordinary set of claims.
--- Andrew Browne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The recent Hitchcock/Freud discussion raises a
> number of points. One that
> springs to mind is why Film Studies still pays
> reverence to Freudian theories
> and structures when they have been so long nuanced,
> if not challenged or even
> discredited, within Psychology itself. It is an
> example of a wider problem
> that many film academics are somehow caught in a
> time-slip when using
> inter-disciplinary approaches.
>
> In the mid 1950s clinical psychologists began to
> develop cognitive
> approaches to understanding how the brain worked.
> This followed a number of clinical
> research results that contradicted Freudian theory
> and a growing feeling that
> Freud's approach to emotions - that they were
> somehow an aberration resulting
> from cogintive imbalance - was simplistic.
> Development of Freudian
> psychological theory, by Lacan and Klein amongst
> others, had led to psychological
> theory that was almost impenetrable with its
> abstruse philosophical concepts.
> With the advances in neuro-psychology and brain
> mapping generally, we have
> moved on a great deal in our understanding of how
> the brain processes
> information.
>
> Freudian structures are good fun and, like any
> structure, they can be forced
> to fit any situation.However, Freud is seen by most
> psychologists as a
> quaint but respected founder of their science. To
> quote him would be similar to
> film writers quoting Melies.
>
> Andrew Browne
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