For Freud to make those remarks is truly remarkable and a textbook example of megalomania and chutzpah. That man was an unscrupulous fraudster who preyed on ric

For Freud to make those remarks is truly remarkable and a textbook example of megalomania and chutzpah. That man was an unscrupulous fraudster who preyed on rich patients (they were all rich at that time), a deviant with weird sexual appetites, and a charlatan[0]. Nephew Eddy didn't fall far from the tree. Plato, whatever his faults (Aristotle is better), cannot be reasonably compared to Freud. [0] Freud also covered his tracks: he burned his notes on more than one occasion. He drew on Weishaupt who drew from the Jesuits in Inglostadt who taught him. The Jesuits practiced a kind of examination of conscience which, of course, was for the purpose of _liberation_ from sin and vice vis-a-vis the sacrament of penance. Weishaupt turned this on its head and used it as a tool ("Seelenanalyse", from which we get the word "psychoanalysis") for exploiting these vices to control people. Enter Wilhelm Reich, second gen Freudian, who weaponized this stuff as "sexual revolution".