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>there's clearly something true about it. It's not all true, not even close, and as a predictive model it is extremely weak; the ways it's not true is really im
by thfuran 3y ago
>there's clearly something true about it. It's not all true, not even close, and as a predictive model it is extremely weak; the ways it's not true is really important
In what way is it clear that there's something true there?
- ajkjk 3y agoA lot of his basic ideas are so enmeshed into our public conception of how people work that we don't even realize they come from him, the main example being the basic ideas of "subconsciousness" and "repression". The interpretation of dreams stuff is definitely not as predictive as he claimed, but it's definitely got something to it; compared to "thinking dreams are random and meaningless" it's definitely a better theory to guess that they involve repressed stuff. Etc.
- qarl 3y agoI don't know much about Freud and his theories - but as one example - I'd say that his concept of defense mechanisms seems pretty spot on. The last few years have given us many examples of psychological projection.