2015 Personality Lecture 08: Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud (Part 1) 

One of the greatest teachers of our era. Maybe the greatest. I wish my university teacher had the ability and knowledge to talk like this.

Thank you to the SJW crowd in Toronto who launched Peterson into world wide view! Excellent backfire !

what s the movie he tells them they re going to watch?

are there humans living outside humanistic societies ?

Thank you, Dr. Peterson, for making your lectures accessible to the general population! The information you share and the propositions you put forth feed my curiosity. Listening to you feels like exploration.

This is the absolute best lecture on basic Freud I have ever watched and I am a psychoanalyst.

Summary: 1- Freud was the first person to say a lot of things that we take for granted today 2- Mental disorders have a sociological element The culture battles against the individual (superego x id) and the battle between the individual and the culture is going to take forms that differentiate between cultures (brief comment: the cultures are different so they have a different impact on people; and people are different as well, so each person is going to have a unique battle) 3 - Sex; sexual diseases; birth control pill 10:00 4 - Book suggestion: The discovery of the unconscious (Jordan says it is the best introduction to the psychoanalitic thought) 5 - People lived on about a dollar a day at 19th century 6 - Freud was very influenced by Nietzche 7 - We take a lot of things for granted nowadays, like: People don’t always say what they mean. Their speech and their actions are influenced by factors that they are not necessarely conscious of. Passions, dreams and mental illnesses are manifestations of the unconscious 8 - Freud’s ideas were rapidly integrated into the culture (in despite of the resistance that really existed and exists) That is why people talk so much about his erros. Everything that he was right about was integrated into the culture and is now taken for granted, so the only things left “about him” are his erros 9 - Sublimation 10 - Educated man will marry uneducated woman, but educated woman won’t marry uneducated man. Woman look for someone who is at least as competent as they are or even more competente 20:00 11 - The superego (Society) vs the id: jail analogy The more authoritarian the Society is, the bigger is the struggle between the individual (attempting to be an individual) and the culture (attempting to turn him into an absolutely predictable machine) Very related to number 2 12 - Freud viewed the primary conflict in mental life as the ego tortured by the id (biological forces), but also inhibited and repressed by the superego 13 - Piaget: The fundamental conflict within people isn’t necessarely social vs the individual. The fundamental conflict is between motivational systems and then between their expression across time within the individual and then between their expression across time within the individual in relationship to all other individuals and to society (So it is more like a complex problem that could be solved by a civilized game than a massive force, that being superego, crushing the individual into submission) 14 - Neurotic people 15 - People on the bottom of dominance hierarchy are much more likely to consider the spirit of the structure as an authoritarian and repressive spirit, because it isn’t making room for you 16 - Industrial Revolution 17 - Superego x id and school system; ADHD; Jaak Panksepp and rats 18 - Hypothesis test and hypothesis generation 30:00 19 - Freud’s hypothesis generation 20 - Behaviorism and ethology; Skinner; Frans de Waal 21 - You have twice as many female ancestors as you do male ancestors 22 - Freud, Jung and other clinicians are basically ethologists. They are studying human beings at their relatively natural environment and trying to figure out how they work 23 - Clinical practice vs lab work 40:00 24 - Reason, emotion and motivation 25 - After Freud we understood that we are not driven mostly by rationality. This is a BIG discovery. “Little rational guy” analogy (43:10) 26 - The rational intelect is not the fundamental element of people’s being 27 - Darwin 50:00 28 - Terror management theory 29 - Free association The importance of talking (52:30) 30 - Explainning a movie to a friend 31 - Fighting with someone you love 32 - Epigenetics 1:00:00 33 - We can represent ideas in symbolic forms 34 - Dreams 35 - The unconscious; when someone is mad 36 - People who don’t end bad relationships 37 - Ego vs id and the “I wish I didn’t say that when I was angry” 38 - Voluntarily inaccessible memories and the unconscious 1:10:00 39 - Unconscious and new ideas (brainstorm) 40 - Unconscious and myths; Jung

I don't say this enough... THANK YOU, Professor, for putting all this out here for FREE. You are awesome.

Learning more from Peterson in 20 mins a night on RU-vid than I ever did studying at university. Fantastic lecturer, and one of the great minds of our generation. Thank you Jordan 👍🏻

I wish every professor on Earth was as good as Mr. Peterson

This man is the man I set as the "ideal mode of being." He is the embodiment of the father. He has filled a fatherly hole in my life.

surely one of the best lecturers ive seen to date.

I wouldn't mind a quarter mil student loan if all the faculty in my school would at least measure to a tenth of the professor's brilliance.

Somebody posted in one of his other lectures that I found so VERY true. "Its like I'm trying to sip knowledge from a fire hose at full pressure"

Great introduction to Freud. I like the concept of psychology as “engineering”

For anybody who couldn't hear/make out what Freud dictates in the recording at the beginning: "I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association. But the struggle is not yet over."

How many of us inspected our phones at the 6:00 mark when the ringtone went off in the video? Pavlov would be proud.

Glad to see he got that hypothalamus under control and dropped the diet coke habit. He'll be in the middle of a sentence and suddenly his brain goes "sugar!" and his arm happily responds.

Thank you to everyone who intentionally, or unintentionally, brought Dr. Peterson to my attention. Very rewarding.

I majored in Political Science. It won out over what ended up being a near-sighted choice...I should have learned more about my own inner workings rather than thinking I could fix anything out in the world while I was still broken and resentful of how little of a voice I had in University. I got my education but I gave in to my worst demons in the process. I'd like to say thank you for your lectures as they afford me an opportunity to learn about a subject of which I've always had an un-kindled interest. Is the Book list for this class posted anywhere online?

1:01:50 he's talking about people making slips of the tongue, and he ironically makes a slip of the tongue.

I'm watching this because I'm unhappy with my academic education. I'm glad people like Dr. Peterson share their knowledge with the world

Dang I am a bit shocked by your presence in this video. You're out of breath(?), exhausted(?), generally appear ill. You're obviously healthier now. Thank God for that, you're a valuable resource for many of us.

I started taking notes on these lectures in a five-subject notebook..............yeah I don't think there are enough pages to contain all the insightful information that you pour into each lecture. Thank you for all you do!

Watching these lectures revitalizes my confidence in therapy and honestly makes me want to book a session with Peterson to see if an expert can make a difference in an individuals mental health

Your own... Canadian... Jesus.

This lecture was amazing! I had no idea about Freud before hand. In only knew the stereotypes but after watching this I am blown away! Great lexture! Great topic!

"Slips of the tomb", there you go, professor.

This is an excellent course! Thank you professor Peterson; it seems like every minute is jam packed with profound yet useful knowledge applicable to one's every day life.

This man is freaking brilliant wish i had him during college

Question: What's the name of the movie he was refering to about freudian theory that the students were supposed to watch later in the week?

@19.16: “...the correlation between women’s mating opportunity and their socioeconomic status is slightly negative and the correlation between men’s...0.5 - 0.6...” What is Jordan Peterson talking about here? Standard Deviation?

I enjoyed this lecture immensely. Could someone please provide me with the name of the movie the professor is going to show his students.

Jordan Peterson is the equivalent to having a neuralink that feeds you psychology information, which is probably the most important information you would want connected to your brain.

This might be the single most enlightening lecture on Freud ive ever heard,

I deeply felt in love with your teachings! Thank you so much Dr. Peterson!

1:09:14 - 1:09:28 The ability to take a simple sentence and convert it into its abstract classes at a word level. Genius.

Wow, I am blessed to have across this. What a teacher! Just and simply GREAT.

You know Peterson talks a lot about how humans find it really useful to just throw themselves at a problem and in the process of dealing with it they improve as a person generally, and I feel like it's really cool to be able to see how that has played out to a large extent in his time in the public spot light. You can in this video that he is a lot less refined than he has become. Not to say that his style in this is "bad," and the topics are still very much interesting, but it is cool to see how has become such an intellectual/explanatory power house in the time that he has been actively engaged in public discourse to the extent that he has since the whole pronouns thing. There is a sort of clarity conviction in the way he presents now that adds to the impact of his explanations really powerfully. I definitely wouldn't wanna try to debate something with the guy thats for sure. Or at least with the intent to win haha.

So thankful to have found this lecture on Freud. Throughout my entire undergraduate degree, all of my professors basically laughed at Psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic theory without genuinely articulating why. There seems to be a backlash to Freud's case studies methods, particularly on upper-middle-class white people, as they are not a representative sample of the general population. Ironically, the large majority of contemporary psychological theory is based on white psychology students and thus is also not representative of the population at large. I really can't understand this hatred for Freud and this overt bias toward CBT, despite the shallow theraptuic approach invloved in CBT.

Mr Peterson, I've always wondered if the Superego, Ego and ID are taken the idea of God the father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost.

freud, jung, rank, reich, ferenczi = a complete psychological model. great video thank you JB

The English (and French) translations of Freud's "Über-Ich" are both wrong. "Ich" should state "I" and "Je" - and not "Ego" or "Moi" (latter would mean "mich" in German). Why the wrong translations are kept to this day is kind of weird. Anyways, "Über" usually "over" or "above". But in terms of Freud's theory it could translate to "higher" as the Über-Ich represents societal values and norms (moral instance). Greetings from Germany.

Thanks for publishing this lesson for all of us .

Dr Peterson. Your lectures have been so useful to me. I am a psychologist. Thanks a lot!

You know, I found out about you because of the SJW stuff, but this is way more interesting. It resonates with me and feels more correct than anything I've heard from any clinical shrink I've ever talked to.

You are simply one of the best, and interesting teacher ever! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌹 if at least 60% of all teachers was like you the university would be the most interesting place in the world.

Freudian psychoanalytic theory is a guide to understanding how human personality develops. Freud was an extremely attentive and sensitive man.

I had a dream that I was reaching my arm as far I could and Jordan's hand was clasping mine, as if pulling me out of or into something and towards him. In a lecture explaining Carl Jung's interpretation of dreams, Peterson said "Jung believed the dream is trying to express a reality that is outside of fully articulated conscious comprehension" or "the dream is telling you something you don't know." While I'm not sure I fully believe that, and his presence in my dream is probably a consequence of my interest in his lectures, it's entertaining and interesting to think about it (and other dreams) according to Jung's interpretation.

I see a vague abstract portrait of Freud on the blackboard! Anyone else noticed that? ;)

But(and btw) I can't hear a dang thing from the audio you played from Freud).

This lecture is really great because it gives structure to what we learned before

Always felt to me that the fables/ stories of the bible are a ‘how to book’, the practical guide to being human. Sort of a workman’s manual, but instead of how you guarantee a secure screw it’s how you guarantee a secure soul. This of course could also be a ‘work woman’s’ manual. Beg your pardon

His posture was so different just 6 years ago. He seems about as uncomfortable as I do at school

Dr. Peterson, I pose the following question for your psychoanalysis and explanation: On the surface, does it not appear that throughout history, particularly in the last 200+ years, the universe-or perhaps evolution-seems to have attempted to suppress human sexuality through the emergence of numerous venereal diseases? My own intellectual capacity doesn't allow me to conceptualize this as eloquently as you might.

Thank you, I’m in college right now and this really has helped.

It makes me sad enough to cry when i think about all of the damage done to me by being diagnosed with adhd and given ritalin since i was 6. 120-160mg daily for 12 years

I've followed Prof. Peterson for 4+ years now but was directed recently to later episodes in this academic series, I guess, because RU-vid recognized I was a devotee of Russian literature so, after watching those, I began at the beginning. In this segment I feel that he really inhabits the material. He is discussing Freud extemporaneously, following his notes, in a fashion that truly expresses what his mind knows. It's primal and pure.

Slips of the tongue aren't always as deep as they might seem. "People make slips of the tum", when the next punctuated word is "time" ("all the time"). It's not so far fetched that sometimes it's just the wrong sounds that come out.

Anyone who understands bangla I will higly recommend Dr. Salimullahs lecture on this. A true gem( He fails to stick to the topic but the additional datas help to understand the topic)

Thank you for this video, I just had a lecture on Freud in my psychology course and the lecturer went on about Diversity, equity and inclusion, his pronouns and how Freud was a white male. This is one of the top 150 universities in the world…

Everytime they applaud is so odd in america at least in my University we don't clap we just leave as fast as we can

Does anyone know the name of the movie he’s referring to?

Product placement for Coca-cola 👌🏾

Anyone on here insulting Freud has never read Freud and is just parroting popular opinion among behaviorists.

hey what movie was he referring to? thanks 😄

One of my favorites of his lectures. The idea that we can be precisely scientific and objective with what's going on in people's heads seems a bit far fetched, so the best you're going to get is a tool to help you chisel at the edges, and that's what Freud and Jung offered. Both of them had ideas that still apply today.

"slip of the tum" ....it was probably 12.22pm and the faculty cafeteria had a lobster bisque on the menu :D

Thank you so much for this post. This man is extremely knowledgeable and gifted in delivering it to the people. Without this posting of this man and his lectures on RU-vid I would have never had the great opportunity to ponder these ideas and such a cohesive and interesting way.

Fascinating and useful stuff to know, I feel like I improved a bit as a person by listening to this.

Jordan Peterson is great, he looks so young here, Ive never watched the older lectures beyond 2016, the carnivore diet really did change his physique tremendously, it's pretty crazy now that I see where he came from.

I want to buy his books just to support him. I used to be able to understand what he was saying and now my brain only grabs one subject out of everything he says and translates it into my brain language which is mostly videos.

For the hilarious moment when JP's tongue slipped while actually referring to slips of the tongue: I think he said (at least it sounded like) "tam" which is - I didn't know it until I looked it up - a woollen hat/cap worn by Rastafarians (Bob Marley's inspiration). Maybe it is that Dr. JP unconsciously craves to loosen up and encourage his creative side (which he certainly did in the years after this lecture). JP is as close to an indispensable human being as they come.

Here's a transcript of that Freud recording. Even if you look up the original it's hard to understand his voice (he had mouth cancer at the time): "I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important and new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, Psycho-Analysis, a part of psychology and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavoury. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I suceeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psycho-Analytic Association. But this struggle is not yet over. Sigmund Freud."

This was incredibly self reflectional. Since the Piaget lecture, i've been constantly self reflecting thanks to Professor. But this directly speaks to mental illness and as someone who has to take heavy anti psychotics due to suicidal tendencies, all i ACTUALLY want is someone to talk to. Someone who would listen and the problems would then go away.

Improve Focus you only need the elements around you that is meditation and a cold shower

I wonder if he ever got to the bottom of "slips of the tum" at 1.02.

Hey JB - bet you wish you'd heard of the carnivore diet here haha!

25:00 tipologia da escola influenciada pela revolução industrial

Does anyone know what's the movie they're going to watch on Thursday?

Anyone know what the movie is about freud???

Now the damn things are saturated with Ads.... terrific

I can't wait for the movie on Tuesday!

I wish I’d been encouraged to check out Freud Theory while growing up. I definitely identify with Freud Theory. Perhaps you need to have issues with sexual development to fully understand it. Or maybe it’s just too explicit for prudes to handle. Or maybe it’s too focused on genders for today’s academics. Either way, the institutions have clearly blacklisted Freud.

Thank you sooo much for your honesty in those times where stupidity is being constantly promoted by the government

Text at 6 min in from Mrs Peterson: "What do you want with your mince tonight, boiled potatoes or mashed?"

You’re incredible and I admire you. 🙏

That was an interesting lecture. I hope in the lectures about existentialism, you would point at Sartre's existential psychoanalysis in which there is a room for intentionality, choice and decision. From this point of view, emotions like anger don't stem from sub-personalities or drives, but they are purposeful and part of our choices and our way of dealing with the world.

Brilliant..... appears fat this time around

what is the movie about he warns the students at the end?

What fucking movie

His surname should have been Freude or Freund. ;)

13.10 not likely hereditary in the sense of genetic but probably congenital in the sense of transfer in utero

Around 30:23 he talks about hypothesis creation and how its not really talked about. I think to get into that you should look into James Clerk Maxwell. He was between Newton and Einstein and just as indispensable. I remember seeing on youtube that Maxwell differed from other scientists in that he thought a lot about the hypothesis process. He also for one problem created an elaborate theoretical model with swirling vortices even though that is not what was actually going on in reality. This model made it so you could see something where all the mathematical descriptions of experimental discoveries could be viewed and make sense. I think we should look Freud's models of the mind in the same way. And I have a book about Freud around somewhere by a woman who I think was a reporter with no background in psychology before working on the book. She starts off saying we should read Freud's writings and analyze and interpret them the same way we analyze the sayings of his patients. I think this is absolute enlightenment. Its kind of funny because when you see Freud is in denial and needing interpretation and "flawed" like this you can find the absolute god like genius in him if that's what you like. Actually I have the idea that the one thing that sets him apart is more than just the genius. Every other guy would have succumbed to the temptations and lost his way. Maybe they would have behaved appropriately with their female patients with all the sexual energy fueling their revelations, but they would all succumb mentally. I think Freud had to be like a saint.

I learn psychology coz I have depression. It helps me understand me.

"If you were Darwin and not nervous? yeah well..." made my week.

Best stuff

Now knowing the difficulties JBP was going through at this point, makes these lectures that much more profound and enlightening in showing the kind of man that he is.

I thought the part about Freud’s genius was compelling due to the comparison with a manic person’s delusion that they were a genius was striking: really puts into perspective how intellectual explorations of uncharted psychological territories can be seen as both so revolutionarily and divinely brilliant to such a degree that the only way to explain the problems posed by the very nature of their own complexity is via a comparison to the gibberings of a thoroughly ill person possessed by manic delusions convinced that say they were God. Its as if the concept of how ‘Yahweh created the world out of form and void’ can be likened to understanding a derivation of klingon translated into a multi-dimensional semaphore for tesseract technology, only to have the sole recorded instance of its divine message being piped through several layers of encrypted mimeographs, squashed into glue, built into a house, destroyed, with the semitones of it’s destruction turned into a song that was covered by a 90’s grunge band and piped over a school loudspeaker.

DON'T you call him Kermit! But do film all of his lectures with a Kermit Puppet! That could be very educational. Kids might listen to this stuff then.