Freud and Mother’s Love: Marc Gafni

Certainly Freud was important in moving us to look at ourselves and pay attention to our inner lives. Particular at the pranic, emotional sexual, second chakra level of existence. He made a huge contribution here both to understanding and to well being. Yet his core insight blurs because he cannot free himself of a deep inner need to reduce everything to the material.

This becomes especially striking whenever Freud moves to understand the high in man; what we would call the erotic or the holy. A striking example; he reduces a mother’s love for her child to sublimated sexuality. In doing so, not only does he violate common sense and our deepest intuition, he also loses all that is sublime.

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