There are layers upon layers in culture when it comes to Freud. Freud was fashionable beyond the reality of his importance, they said. Then the "Freud as misi

There are layers upon layers in culture when it comes to Freud. Freud was fashionable beyond the reality of his importance, they said. Then the "Freud as misinderstood" revisionists ruled, for a while. Then it was fashionable to discredit and mock Freud. He became the epitome of all that's "unscientific". Then the neo-Freudians came along and was fashionable to denounce the rigid, autistic positivists who so loudly mocked Freud. And so it goes. Meanwhile his nephew Edward Bernays totally transformed Western culture into what we see today... a fantasy driven garden of individual Utopian projects. And if you bracket the crazy penis-envy unconscious analysis stuff aside, then "Civilisation and Its Discontents" remains one of the most prescient discourses on our current condition ever written [0]. There's one great test that a thinker is not irrelevant... that people are still talking about them 100 years later. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Discontents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Disconten...