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It was never "scientifically sound" for reasons of unfalsifiability. Was it ever a useful tool? Here and there maybe. Has it had a massive infuence on culture
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
It was never "scientifically sound" for reasons of unfalsifiability.
Was it ever a useful tool? Here and there maybe.
Has it had a massive infuence on culture and the world? Absolutely.
So I was chatting with a clinical psych/therapist recently who said
"Since it could only be validated from the _inside_ wouldn't it be
hilarious if advances in AI validated Freud?" Like GPT10 comes on and
says " I want to kill my father and fuck mum, pass me the cocaine!"
- wolverine876 3y ago> Was it ever a useful tool? Here and there maybe. What makes you quantify it like that? I'm not sure I could quantify it, but it's certainly been used, directly and indirectly, extraordinarily widely.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoOther than that I lived in Hampstead momentarily, Freud only appears to me as side effects. My psycho-friends, as I call them, are all into Bowlby and Winnicott and whatnot. And I did a study on Bernays in some military work. Wherever you look, there's Freud. No escaping the chap.