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    3 days ago

    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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      2 days ago

      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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      3 days ago

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