+1 862 207 3288 Freud’s ideas are inclined to touch a raw nerve: people either feel passionate about them or are highly sceptical. Now 150 years since his birth debate continues to rage in both lay and professional quarters about the value of his ideas.
You are invited to enter into a debate about the merits and demerits of psychoanalysis. You should also consider the following:
Does psychoanalysis have anything to offer the modern world?
Does psychoanalysis have anything to offer in the local Australian context? (To give
substance to this question you are encouraged to ground your enquiry in something local from today’s newspaper.)
To assist you in the online discussion you are encouraged to find your own popular online sources. By way of a start you might consider the following:
1. Freud in Our Midst Newsweek Adler, J. (March 27, 2006) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11904222/site/newsweek
2. Interview: Biology of the Mind – A Nobel Prize winner on psychiatry, Freud and the future of neuroscience – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11904316/site/newsweek/
3. Freud is Dead, Long Live Freud http://www.theobservingego.com/archives/opinions/000026.php#more
4. The assault on Freud http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601931129,00.html
5. Freud gets ego boost on 150th birthday – Father of psychoanalysis still celebrated and debated – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12600402/
6. Newsweek On Air: Freud at 150—The Legend Lives (podcast) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11899871/site/newsweek/
