• pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
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      Freud is famous for linking mental issues/blockages with previous experiences, including (very commonly) experiences from one’s childhood, that built subconscious blockages or desires. So in this case he’s linking that boy’s relationship struggles to the way his mother treated him while growing up.

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    I think it’s absolutely hilarious that Freud outed his own afflictions and tried to normalize them - how so fitting to his perspective.

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    Freud was a sick, sick man.

    We give his deranged nonsense theories based on his deranged damaged patients far, far, fartoo much credence.

    I mean, if you think about any of them critically, even for a minute, his theories are obviously complete and utter bullshit.

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      Absolutely, HOWEVER, most of the modern field of psychology exists because so many people were like “you’re fucking stupid, Freud” and then went and proved him wrong

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      Do we give his theories any credence at all? Seems like his theories are always mocked and ridiculed, at least in the context I see them in

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        People talk about the subconscious as if it’s a real thing rather than his invented theory to explain away the fact that the vast majority of people quite firmly believe that they don’t want to have sex with their parents.

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        According to a south american friend studying psychology, both Freud and Jung are still part of the standard curriculum there, and mostly uncritically