Most psychologists don’t care about Freud’s work outside of a historical sense and kinda hate him as a person. His work was quite literally used as an example of pseudoscience by Karl Popper.

And yet for some reason philosophers have an obsession with integrating his views into their work and artists keep using his views as inspiration and analyze existing works via the lens of psychoanalysis.

Why?

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Honestly I think it’s as simple as his notariety.
    He is one of the most well-known psychologists and is a bit of a pop culture icon.
    It’s like how you see most non-physicists talk about Einstein more than they do Feynman or Higgs.