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> Why do we continue to teach Freud and Jung in college English departments? Freud and Jung are taught to English students because their work, while thoroughly
by njs12345 14y ago
> Why do we continue to teach Freud and Jung in college English departments?
Freud and Jung are taught to English students because their work, while thoroughly debunked, has indeed influenced a lot of authors.
Also, at least in the case of Freud, he was a fairly prolific literary critic in his own right, with his contributions in this field being quite separate from his psychoanalytic efforts (if perhaps influenced by them at times).
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoCan you point me to some reading on the debunking of Freud's tripartite model of the mind (id, ego, superego). I find it a useful description, it often seems apposite in describing my internal mental machinations and conflicts of thought and desire so hearing that it is apparently clearly debunked is interesting ... Do you mean they've been shown not to be scientific? That just sounds like psychology as a whole to me ...