The content of his studies was mostly false, but the concept of it was influential and groundbreaking. He initiated the process of moving the questions of the mind from the field of philosophy to the field of science a’d medicine… But he didn’t achieve that process himself. His psychoanalysis wasn’t science yet, but philosophy on its way to become science.
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Submitted 1 year ago by Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That wasn’t really Freud’s achievement though. There are many early psychologists who deserve credit for this much more than him, such as William James, Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Hermann Ebbinghaus, or (later) B. F. Skinner.
Freud’s work was mostly in the medical tradition, developed independently from the emerging psychological science of that time, and that’s where his theories still have the largest impact.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
MFW they invent an Elektra complex to make it gender equal
She didn’t even do that! She was trying to avenge her father! Why not name it after one of those girls from the old testament that drugged and raped their dad to get prego? Sounds a lot more like what a woman with a dangerous sexual fixation would do too.
JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oedipus dit also cut his eyes out when he realised what he had done, so…
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
That’s what I never understood. Oedipus only fucked his mum because he didn’t know who she really was. So, technically a motherfucker but it makes absolutely no sense as a psychology template (in my layman’s eyes st least).
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Freud is seriously the biggest hack in any field I can think of that went on to get such undeserved renowned.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Musk is mentioned in Star Trek as a genius of his time…
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Another reason to not watch that show .
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 year ago
well, while his specific ideas are generally discredited, he did invent psychoanalysis…
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Psychoanalysis is kinda stinky tho.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Apart from Woody Allen movies, what did it ever bring?
FatTony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Freud is seriously the biggest Fraud in any …
Missed opportunity there.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But people still love cocaine!
archonet@lemy.lol 1 year ago
don’t you think more of your problems could be solved by the precise application of shitloads of cocaine?
gapedanus@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
yozul@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I mean, he can be the most important founding father of modern psychology and also have been wrong about everything he said. Let’s be real. Modern psychology is still very, very wrong about a lot of things. It’s a science in its infancy. Alchemists were wrong about everything, but their work made chemistry possible. Standing on the shoulders of giants doesn’t always mean those giants were right.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
This might be a universal truth
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 year ago
See also: Herodotus is the father of history despite being an absolutely terrible historian by modern standards.