On 16 Apr 2008 at 9:09, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> It turns out that there is one such [on-line] book wriitten for Intro Psych:
> http://www.intropsych.com/ [Russell Dewey's Psychology: an Introduction]
> Has anyone "out there" considered using it? Any comments on the quality
> of its content?
Out of insatiable curiosity, I checked it for the iceberg. Sure enough,
it's there, unabashedly directly attributed to Freud ("Like an iceberg
(Freud said) nine-tenths of the psyche is invisible to us, submerged in
the unconscious."). Of course, Dewey is far from alone in perpetuating
this error. Note also a fairly restrained (compared to some) diagram of
what this iceberg looks like.
See http://www.intropsych.com/ch11_personality/super-ego.html
Interestingly, Dewey attributes the source of Freud's id to one Georg
Groddick in his "The Book of It", a claim I haven't seen before.
Astoundingly, Wikipedia claims that Freud, well-known for anal-
retentiveness where credit is concerned, actually himself credited
Groddick for this insight. Doubtless a Freud scholar, if only we had one
on this list, would be able to comment.
See http://www.intropsych.com/ch11_personality/id.html
Stephen
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