1. Freud, Nietzsche and the Challenge to Positivism
Making of the Modern World
Week 13

3. Structure of Lecture Positivism Nietzsche Freud
Concluding thoughts and impact

4. POSITIVISM
A philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations, and in which information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge.

8. Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the sea of fog (1818)

12. W.H. Auden
‘To us he is no more a person but a whole climate of opinion’ (In Memory of Sigmund Freud, 1939)