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Jan. 28, 2010 Dear Dr. Freud The world may have issues with you but they must admit you are the father of psychology. After all without you all their modern behaviorist theories might never have been born had you not given us the divisions of the mind, the unconscious and of course your much maligned psychosexual stages of development. Some seventy plus years after your passing the everyday man is still using words you coined involving the id, ego and superego. Even today I overheard someone gossiping that someone was an egomaniac. There you are in modern day conversation. Your discovery of the unconscious was absolutely brilliant and also revolutionary. Some use the pictorial metaphor that the conscious is just the tip of the iceberg and that the unconscious the part that sank the Titanic, which you remember, makes up 7/8 of the rest of the mind. Freudian slip is another idiom that still is pervasive in society today. This is one way the unconscious speaks albeit out of turn and at inopportune moments. However, Dr. I think you might have gone too far in your experiments with cocaine because most of your contemporaries already knew its deleterious effects on the human body. In fact your dalliances with it might have prevented you from even more brilliant discoveries. Your five psychosexual stages of development have also taken a beating over the years. I think you had the right idea that a child when discovering his/her body that they could get self-gratification orally, anally and of course genitally was unnerving to some but in many ways quite correct, but to expound the theory that these stages and the failure of their resolution would result in psychological dysfunction in adult life might have been well intended but not one of your best theories shall we say. I for one wish that you did not let your ego interfere with your relationship with Carl Gustav Jung because I think the two of you together would have made great music had you and he been able to redirect your differences. Let’s face it you were the father of psychology but even father’s need to let their “offspring” think they have a mind that can contribute as well. In closing Dr. Freud you were for me Einstein in my favorite area of study psychology. And I for one would never besmirch your name because you gave us all something to think about. Yours truly, Jack Briant ------------ About the author Jack Briant: My writings are personal musings, but they transcend my own individual experience and seek to touch your heart and soul through experiences of your own. I seem to see life through the lens of metaphors that show up whenever I am moved or connected with the deeper meaning of life in front of me. My style humorous in one layer can move you to tears or have you nodding "yes" as you sidle up to the emotions in you. My explorations delve into the human condition as it relates to fragmented relationships, blended family challenges and any form of the addictions that plague us. I won't try to tell you what to do or give you 10 easy steps or even point you in the direction I think you should be headed. Rather it is my wish that you take longer looks at the areas of your life you only gave fleeting glances to.
Email: jackbriant@mac.com
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