What are your views on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud?

What are your views on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud?

Do you agree with his theory about the unconscious mind, psychosexual development and life/death drives?

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Neither of those boards seem adequate to discuss psychology though.

Didn't we have this same thread 2 weeks ago?

Found none in the archive.

To be honest, his ideas about psychological development are mostly bullshit because they are too humanized. He's applying human feeling and intuition to the human mind and it doesn't work that way. It's way more arbitrary. When it comes to psychology, I mostly subscribe to cbt and diagnosing and finding out why people act how they do is never universal, even though people have a common grounds to leap off of so to speak.

His biggest achievement was to work out the important role and the mechanisms of subconscious thoughts. This discovery revolutionized psychotherapy. To be precise, it wasn't really his discovery, but he was the one who made it popular.

The rest of his theory, in particular the exaggerated emphasis on sexuality and "drives" is outdated nowadays and replaced by models which focus on emotions and inner conflicts.

But you can't deny that human feelings are important.

No, they're everything that makes life worth living but - in psychology he couldn't test it out at all. All he could do is give names to phenomena he thought he percieved.

Do you have sexual feelings for ur mom ?

Siggie Freuds cause for schizophrenia and other mental disorders was top kek

y-n-no w-why do you a-axe?

just to see if you're honest or just repressing them ;)

I'm always honest when repressing my emotions.

He opened many new doors and asked insightful question that showed us a complete new way of making psychology.
He also tried to answer the question he posited, and failed miserably.

He was a breath of fresh air.

Can't say I agree with him, though.

Freud is taken as seriously by psychologists as Ken Ham is by biologists

More of a philosopher.
>His sample was fucking atrocious and VERY unrepresentative of the general population!

So u wanna hugfuck ur mommy then ?

Not that atrocious desu.

Has anyone read Freud in German? The deliberate mistranslation of Freuds work for the Anglo-American psychiatric establishment is covered at length in Bruno Bettleheim's "Freud and Mans Soul" So all opinions other than the German ones in this thread are worthless.

he is retarded.... doll for money maker

German? Are you aware that Freud was even German?

What's the difference between German and English versions?

He made everything up but made "psychology" interesting for 2 reasons:

- The ability to judge others via made up jargon and concepts that sound official and suspect consensus based controls

- Got away with so much extreme bullshit that it encouraged other narcissists/egotists and groupthink control freak with inflated to go about accusing people with neologisms, projection and confirmation bias

Everything was a dick, he rejected the concept of sexual abuse, and none of his ideas helped anyone because the randomly made them up.

But he had reasons to believe that.

Have you reasons to believe otherwise?

Doesn't go a day at uni without someone bringing the man up. Thankfully it's always ironic or an easy ur mum-joke.

To answer your question:

>What are your views on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud?

His work laid the groundwork for the field of modern psychology. With that said:

>Do you agree with his theory about the unconscious mind, psychosexual development and life/death drives?

No. It's hands down largely bullshit, almost all of it. The few things he 'got right' in any sense of the expression are handled better by other models or theories.

t. psych student