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Having been a psychotherapists for 25 years I have heard all the negatives about Freud. I was once told by my supervisor that the only way to fully understand

by reify 3y ago

Having been a psychotherapists for 25 years I have heard all the negatives about Freud. I was once told by my supervisor that the only way to fully understand Freud was to read his works in German. For me he is an absolute genius. Who else could have discovered the unconscious mind? For those non-psychotherapeutic people, your negative views and naive understandings are like me being negative about Timothy Berners-Lee when I dont know the first thing about coding or the difference between Python and Rust. Of course I know about aliases and small python scripts that make using linux easier but someone else has taken the time to write them. Does this alone make me qualified to question his work or claim I know more than him? You are of course entitiled to your negative views and that is all they are, a view. Every form, method and modality of psychotherapy in use today, from CBT to Psychosynthesis, begun with Freud. The old man's back again! what a rubbish headline! what should we make of his return? WHAT? He has not even left the building! The use of the word "should" says it all. Parental, introject, super-ego.

TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
And every form of modern physics began (more or less) with Galileo. But if physicists suddenly decided Galileo was back because Galilean physics was somehow an ideal to aspire to, many brows would be furrowed with scepticism. Leave the corpse alone. There's enough death drive around for everyone at the moment without adding yet more ancestor worship.
dang 3y ago
Freud definitely didn't discover the unconscious mind - that idea was in the air in the late 19th century, with many people writing about it. There's a great book about this—I think it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Unconscio.... What Freud did do was create the most influential theory about it. It's similar to how the idea of evolution was in the air before Darwin (whose grandfather even had written a book about it), but Darwin's theory became so influential that we now identify the idea of evolution with him. I agree with your other points!

by reify 3y ago

TheOtherHobbes 3y ago

And every form of modern physics began (more or less) with Galileo. But if physicists suddenly decided Galileo was back because Galilean physics was somehow an ideal to aspire to, many brows would be furrowed with scepticism. Leave the corpse alone. There's enough death drive around for everyone at the moment without adding yet more ancestor worship.

dang 3y ago

Freud definitely didn't discover the unconscious mind - that idea was in the air in the late 19th century, with many people writing about it. There's a great book about this—I think it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Unconscio.... What Freud did do was create the most influential theory about it. It's similar to how the idea of evolution was in the air before Darwin (whose grandfather even had written a book about it), but Darwin's theory became so influential that we now identify the idea of evolution with him. I agree with your other points!