Freud

[JBond]

What does everyone think of the Freudian theory of geneaology and the rememberances that children have of their parents lives- though it was never their experiences, per se.

I find it to be facinating.

 

[calidog]

Fraud

 

[JBond]

Why do you say "fraud"? have you ever studied his works?
Freud was a psychologist which is a respectable science in his day. It wasn't a feild trying to make money as it is today. Such scientists were actually interested in the well beiong of others and to see how the psyche (mind) works

 

[JBond]

Anyway, Freud says that the rememberances of parents are transferred to their children. Which is why children sometimes find themselves in situations by which they act like their parents. Sometimes committing the same errors, in the similar situations, as they have, though, in a technicality they are completely different people.

Also goes the same vice and versa, that they do the very same beneficial activites as their parents would have. His research showed that it even comes about without a parents influence.
He also showed how a person can recall memories that he himself never experienced but that somehow were transferred to that individual- maybe an inheritance of "family tree".
It may not sound like a normal thing. But I think it is something very worthful.

 

[Organist]

I had never heard this. It is interesting. It is doubtful to me that there is any truth in it. However, I'd like to read up on this. Thanks for posting.

 

[JBond]

No problem. I don't mind that people are skeptical- but thank you for at least considering it upon research.
I find that his ideas do match the word of G-d though.

 

[KristyAnne]

Genetic memory? Sorry if I've read it wrong, but is that the gist of it? I've heard about it before (but not of the Freud connection). I think it's a fascinating idea, and a definite possibility, because there is so much about the brain and memory that we don't understand.

So did Freud only consider memory being passed from parent to child, or did he explore the possibility that it could be passed down from grandparents, and great-grandparents, etc.?

Kristy