Beginning Season Two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the second class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week's topic, “The Rebbe on Freud's Theories.”
Torah in 10: The Rebbe on Freud’s Theories – can it Apply to a Yid?
Beginning Season Two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the second class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on Freud’s Theories.”
no one special
It is obvious that you have not studied or not understood Freud’s comments on religion. It is interesting that you didn’t tell the listeners about the Rebbe Rashab’s visit to Freud to seek relief of his depression.
Yisroel N
I believe that the title of the episode was the Rebbe’s view on Freud not Chabad on Freud.
no one special
The man is ad-libbing. Some comments RE: Freud & religion are ad-libbed by Rabbi Miller and not contained in the letter.
My second comment RE: Rebbe Rashab, needs attention in light of The Rebbe’s letter. Obviously, Chabad, at least in the past, included The Rashab.
no one special
Specifically, the title questioned if Freud’s theories can apply to a “Yid”. Any Yid.
What do you think?
Didn’t Freud simply lift his concept of an “Id” and “Super-Ego” from the Rabbinic teachings about the Yezter HaRa and Yetzer HaTov? Isn’t the former 12/13 years older than the latter? Isn’t the Yetzer HaRa simply one’s survival instinct and sex drive (or libbido, as Freud would call it)?
These, of course, are not EVIL in and of themselves, because without these basic drives we wouldn’t conduct business, build a home, marry or seek to have children. So, the Yetzer HaRa is both essentially good and necessary and only becomes EVIL when it’s left to run amok and isn’t tamed by our Yetzer HaTov.
From what I see, Freud simply plagiarized the Rabbinic teachings and then put his own spin on them. What do you think?
no one special
I agree that much of his personality theory can be linked to “Rabbinic” view of yetzers.