https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Projection (German: Projektion) was conceptualised by Sigmund Freud in his letters to Wilhelm Fliess,[12] and further refined by Karl Abraham and Anna Freud. Freud considered that, in projection, thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings that cannot be accepted as one's own are dealt with by being placed in the outside world and attributed to someone else.[13] What the ego refuses to accept is split off and placed in another.[14]
Freud would later come to believe that projection did not take place arbitrarily, but rather seized on and exaggerated an element that already existed on a small scale in the other person.[15] (The related defence of projective identification differs from projection in that the other person is expected to become identified with the impulse or desire projected outside,[16] so that the self maintains a connection with what is projected, in contrast to the total repudiation of projection proper.)[17]
Some studies were critical of Freud's theory. Research on social projection supports the existence of a false-consensus effect whereby humans have a broad tendency to believe that others are similar to themselves, and thus "project" their personal traits onto others.[37] This applies to both good and bad traits; it is not a defense mechanism for denying the existence of the trait within the self.[38] A study of the empirical evidence for a range of defense mechanisms by Baumeister, Dale, and Sommer (1998) concluded, "The view that people defensively project specific bad traits of their own onto others as a means of denying that they have them is not well supported." [38] However, Newman, Duff, and Baumeister (1997) proposed a new model of defensive projection in which the repressor's efforts to suppress thoughts of their undesirable traits make those trait categories highly accessible—so that they are then used all the more often when forming impressions of others. The projection is then only a byproduct of the real defensive mechanism.[39]
ReplyDeleteDisplacement is hinted to in the Gemara, and is akin to idolatry.
Mesechta Shabbat 105b).
Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri is quoted as comparing one who breaks things or disposes of his money in anger to an idol worshipper.
And therefore you claim Freud has the status of a Tanna?
DeleteOr are you simply trying to say not everything he said was utter nonsense
Every claim of significance is probably hinted in the Gamora
That doesn't validate everything the person said!
I could spend more time finding sources, but then i would have to write a thesis.
DeleteWhat I am saying is that at least some of his ideas were already entertained by the Sages . Whether he had some Jewish learning (apparently he did), or came up with this independently is a different question.
Freud sometimes said things which were widely accepted as true, and that doesn't mean he can take credit for them, if he said my heart is beating you would say he discovered blood circulation
DeleteIf he says people eat when hungry that means he discovered the idea of nutrition. He claimed that all men have an oedipal complex which simply isn't true. He denied the reality of child abuse, he had an adulterous relation with his sister in law
He claimed falsely to have cured people from severe psychological problems. This despite the clear denial from his patients. He was a fraud and cult leader, why are you obsessed with having recognized as more than that. Why your fixation on Freud. Is he a father figure?