Most psychologists don’t care about Freud’s work outside of a historical sense and kinda hate him as a person. His work was quite literally used as an example of pseudoscience by Karl Popper.

And yet for some reason philosophers have an obsession with integrating his views into their work and artists keep using his views as inspiration and analyze existing works via the lens of psychoanalysis.

Why?

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Most psychologists kinda hate Freud as a person? Do they want to talk about that? Why have hate for a dead person?

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      5 months ago

      Look up “penis envy”. Or “Oedipus complex”. Or some of his views on women.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      My psychiatrist often kills five minutes of my hour convo ranting about freud. I love it. (Until I had to pay for mental services directly instead of my work paying for it)