age of anxiety

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

The PsychePersonality

Always at war with each other

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

Anastasia Romanov