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Ok don’t know whether Freud was a charlatan or simply one of many explorers of his time, who believed in his theories. (Consider Lysenko and others.) But his n
by EGreg 4y ago
Ok don’t know whether Freud was a charlatan or simply one of many explorers of his time, who believed in his theories. (Consider Lysenko and others.)
But his nephew EDWARD BURNAYS in the USA is the reason Freud came to USA and we even know about Freud. And Burnays was far more successful using methods of mass psychology — very meta, he renamed Propaganda to PUBLIC RELATIONS.
Burnays got women to smoke, and helped promote the public stock market, which now is used for IPO of many startups. Google “Century of the Self” for a great documentary.
- bryanrasmussen 4y ago>Burnays got women to smoke I think being allowed to use an addictive substance would deserve a great deal of the credit.
- 462436347 4y ago> Lysenko You're sympathetically comparing him to Lysenko, which only proves my point: both were unscientific charlatans legitimized by leftists, to the detriment of many.
- EGreg 4y agoThe vast majority of people in new disciplines were like that at the time. Rigor comes later. I mean, didn’t most physicists in the 19th century believe the Earth was no more than 100 million years old? And everyone was afraid to challenge them until radioactivity was discovered. Bloodletting and leeches and phlogiston and humours and spontaneous generation - same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle How about today’s pioneers… Is Bem a charlatan? Is B J Fogg? Robert Cialdini? Erik von Markovik from Mystery Method? Jeremy Miner from NEPQ? LOL
- meindnoch 4y ago*Bernays