If only. Thanks to him, today we still got con artists with medical degrees making up stuff like “Yo momma loved you so much she made you autistic” and achieving nothing but more depression and fake memories.
Psychoanalysis is so ingrained in pop culture most people don’t ever realize there are people trying to treat psychology as an actual science out there.
we also have a better understanding of cerebal palsy thanks to his early work, a (debateable) impact on the priority of women’s health in the diagnostic process, and he was the first popular science writer to promote that there were topographies to the mind: that consciousness and perception aren’t just one state but are interconnected systems of consciousness, subconsciouss, instinct and thought (both proactive and reactive)
the Morse Telegraph, or any invention from the 1800s, is also shit in comparison to 2025 standards- that doesn’t mean the initial work to invent it is worthless.
His baseless methods, who were proven non-efficient for treatment in studies, are what is still taught today in many psychology universities, with heavy lobbyism from Freudian-Lacanian psychologists. Some of these universities almost exclusively teach that (especially French ones).
It’s more like instead of building from the laws and mathematics that worked in Newton’s works and experiment to try to refine them and put them to the test, today’s physics had taken into account his views on theology and alchemy and taught them as is.
Except it would still be missing the part about ruining lives by being used as a practical field of medicine.
They are taught today in the same way that all obsolete theories are taught today as part of context. No one is being instructed to actively practice Seduction Theory or Cocaine Therapy. (I mean there are always quacks, I’m talking in general here).
Usually Freud is taught alongside Jung, Lacan, Rank, Stekel, Bataille, Lagache, Aulagnier, Guattari, Derrida, etc. Not as a monolithic concept.
If only. Thanks to him, today we still got con artists with medical degrees making up stuff like “Yo momma loved you so much she made you autistic” and achieving nothing but more depression and fake memories.
Psychoanalysis is so ingrained in pop culture most people don’t ever realize there are people trying to treat psychology as an actual science out there.
we also have a better understanding of cerebal palsy thanks to his early work, a (debateable) impact on the priority of women’s health in the diagnostic process, and he was the first popular science writer to promote that there were topographies to the mind: that consciousness and perception aren’t just one state but are interconnected systems of consciousness, subconsciouss, instinct and thought (both proactive and reactive)
the Morse Telegraph, or any invention from the 1800s, is also shit in comparison to 2025 standards- that doesn’t mean the initial work to invent it is worthless.
His baseless methods, who were proven non-efficient for treatment in studies, are what is still taught today in many psychology universities, with heavy lobbyism from Freudian-Lacanian psychologists. Some of these universities almost exclusively teach that (especially French ones).
It’s more like instead of building from the laws and mathematics that worked in Newton’s works and experiment to try to refine them and put them to the test, today’s physics had taken into account his views on theology and alchemy and taught them as is.
Except it would still be missing the part about ruining lives by being used as a practical field of medicine.
They are taught today in the same way that all obsolete theories are taught today as part of context. No one is being instructed to actively practice Seduction Theory or Cocaine Therapy. (I mean there are always quacks, I’m talking in general here).
Usually Freud is taught alongside Jung, Lacan, Rank, Stekel, Bataille, Lagache, Aulagnier, Guattari, Derrida, etc. Not as a monolithic concept.
I volunteer for renewed clinical trials of cocaine therapy, where’s the sign up sheet?