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Ideas of Sigmund Freud, by Text

[Austrian, 1856 - 1939, Born at Freiberg. Ran a psychiatric practice in Vienna. Spent his last years in London.]

1900 works
p.81 Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Solomon]
p.168 Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Searle]
p.396 Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Shoemaker]
II p.51 Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Murdoch]