>The worst part about them is that now people think that Freud's bullshit was right. Freud used to get a lot of attention, and now he doesn't - mostly because

>The worst part about them is that now people think that Freud's bullshit was right. Freud used to get a lot of attention, and now he doesn't - mostly because of his treatment by Popper, a treatment that has been refuted several times over. I'm not saying Freud is unassailable, but to say he's so useless as to not be used is ridiculous. There's much more to Freud than the Oedipus complex. >Deleuze killed himself. Althusser killed his wife. All of them hurt future psychiatry with their nonsense. This is a very uncharitable treatment of the authors (it's unclear why their personal problems have anything to do with their work; name me an author less saintly than Tolstoy or Spinoza and I'll find words to hang them), and the fact that nobody really practices psychoanalysis based on Deleuze, and Althusser wasn't even in the same camp. My point was that it's wrong to paint every French scholar of the 60s, 70s and 80s with the same brush. The actual legacy of Deleuze in psychiatry is nil. His legacy in psychoanalysis is slightly more than nil.