Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
From the Edwardian Age to the First World War, The age of anxiety - Coggle…
-
The age of anxiety
-
Freud’s influence
he stressed the importance of the unconscious and the libido, the relationship between parents and children were deep studied and changed profoundly.
New ideas were spread by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis – a new theory that helped people express their inner feeling by using free association:
The Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein introduced the theory of relativity, that changed forever the concept of time and space, which now are subjective dimensions.
This reflected also in literature and art, as rebellion against fixed perspective
A new picture of man --> A new man was depicted from Freud’s studies, to Marx ideas, to Nietzsche notions: many people detached themselves from Christianity searching for alternatives.
Anthropological Studies --> Many studies of anthropology grew, like Sir James George Frazer’s “The Golden Bough” that undermined the absolute truth of religion; many new social organization were analyzed.
A New Concept of Time --> William James (American): our minds record every experience; for Henri Bergson (France) historical time is external and linear, while psychological time is internal and subjective.
The collective unconscious --> Jung continued Freud’s studies and added the concept of “collective unconscious”, a memory that collects all the images and beliefs of the universe: some everyday objects have a symbolic power that people respond to.