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Age of Anxiety. Culture Between Wars. Albert Einstein. Insanity: Doing the Same Thing Over & Over Again & Expecting Different Results. Albert Einstein. German physicist General Theory of Relativity. Run Ins With Nukes. Visited US in 1933 (Hitler Time) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Age of AnxietyCulture Between Wars
Albert Einstein
Insanity: Doing the Same Thing Over & Over Again & Expecting Different Results
Albert Einstein• German physicist• General Theory of
Relativity
Run Ins With Nukes• Visited US in 1933 (Hitler Time)• Alerted FDR to look into Nuclear
Development• Manhattan Project
Run Ins With Nukes• Denounced Nuclear Weapons
Because of Damage
Sigmund Freud
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but I am afraid it is not going to be a success”
Sigmund Freud• Austrian Neurologist
• Father of psychology
Escape from Nazi Germany
Burning of Books = no freedom of thought • Escape to Great Britain
Who Would Be Your “3?”
Instinct & Drives• Even though we are complex &
sophisticated, we are still animals
• Behavior is governed by drives• Sex is especially important
ID (Instinctual Drive)• Animal Part– Food, Drink,
Sex• Aggressive
Superego• Moral • Behavior parents approve of• Guilt
Ego• YOU• Balance the demands of the
ID & the constraints of the superego
Unconscious Mind
FearsViolent MotivesIrrational WishesSelfish NeedsShameful ExperiencesTraumatic Experiences
ThoughtsPerceptions
Pablo Picasso
“The Purpose of Art is Washing the Dust of Daily Life off our Souls.”
Pablo Picasso• Famous Spanish cubist• Rejected realism• Cubism: Expressionist style that
featured geometric planes and angles; looks like an intricate stack of boxes
Pablo Picasso
“Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing, period. Through art, we express our concept of what nature is not.”
Death of the Romanovs