Father of Psychoanalysis birthday is today 06/May/2009. This brilliant Psychiatrist and philosopher would be 153 years today. ABC Radio National had a great show dedicated to him on the date of his 150 anniversary,
Here is one of his statements on religion:
"Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect." (The Future of an Illusion, 1927).
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Happy Birthday indeed. He got me interested enough to want to go to med school when I was younger. And while that may not have worked out quite to plan, it certainly put me in the direction which my life has taken. Thanks Sig.
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