Freuds texts

In his reading of this text [ The Sandman ], Freud insists that intellectual Uncertainty —the term introduced by Jentsch, his predecessor in the study of the uncanny— is not what counts. It is not, he insists, uncertainty or delusion... 

The haunting return of the rational cannot help but recall ambivalence. It would seem at first glance that, like ambivalence, the uncanny is a term that might wish to be other, something deeply structuring in the psyche but that persists in returning to the real, to the realm of the intellect. We shall have to see, then, by what force it achieves this return and what sort of resistance is mounted by Freud (or by the text itself) in the process. 

Freud believed that the superego Is created in us by parental socialization. The argument in the text suggests that it can also be a purely individual construct. 

We must cut short our review of the psychoanalytic aspects of the myth of masturbation and will conclude by citing the views o(Ouo (Femchel, whose book. The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, is cofisidered the definitive modern text on psychoanalysis. Fenichel is considerably less opposed to masturbation than Freud had been. But he, too, tries to present moral criteria of what are desirable and undesirable attitudes toward masturbation as if they were scientific psychoanalytic criteria of mentally healthy behavior. Masturbation, Fenichel writes, .. . is normal in childhood and under present cultural conditions is also normal in adolescence, and even in adulthood as a substitute when no sexual object is available.. . . ... 

Karl Terzaghi, Theoretical Soil Mechanics (1943). Based on a German text of 1925, here is an Austrian in the age of Freud trying to bring a scientific basis to his discourse. 

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