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?

  • PirateJesus@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Recognize him for a different OG status:

    His work was so bad that all the “internet nerds” worked overnight trying to disprove him.