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
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.
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.
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
Cunningham’s law before the internet
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
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.
According to a south american friend studying psychology, both Freud and Jung are still part of the standard curriculum there, and mostly uncritically
Lacan and Žižek seem to.
At least Žižek mostly just seems to use it to interpret and deconstruct cinema.