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...student says he recently talked to a faculty member about writing a paper which would discuss the role of religion in psychoanalysis by comparing the writings of Sigmund Freud, an atheist, with the work of other psychoanalysts. The student says his professor told him the topic was just not empirical enough. Instead, "she suggested I send a questionnaire to psychoanalysts and just ask them about their beliefs," the students says...
...what should be in it? The heart of the dispute at Stanford has been whether to amend or remove from the university's freshman Western culture courses a roster of 15 prescribed classics. Many scholars regard those works, ranging from Homer and Dante to Darwin and Freud, as part of a sacred canon. But revisionists, including many blacks, Hispanics and women, want to build a new, theme-based program rather too cleverly called CIV (short for Culture, Ideas and Values...
...these centuries-old issues seems unlikely. Despite the soul searching at Stanford and elsewhere, no reading list is ever going to satisfy everyone. Nor should it. Even friends of Stanford's original 15 readings concede that they constituted a mighty loose little canon -- for example, two pieces by Freud, but no Shakespeare and not a word by any American writer or political philosopher, such as James Madison...
...Freud's theory, suggested around the turn of the century, rested on the assumption that while dreaming, the brain processes information from daytime activities and releases unconscious desires through symbols during dreams. According to Freud, if a woman dreams about dancing with a rabbit, she might actually be expressing a desire to become involved with a friend named Robert, since Robert and rabbit are spelled similarly...
While Hobson and McCarley say they do not disagree with Freud's theory of dream expression, they assert that the REM stage involves more complex activities than rehashing past experiences...