For someone who doesn't have any proper education on /his/, can I get a quick rundown on this guy and why my gf is talking about him all the time?
>>2704025
You gf is envious of your penis.
You are secretly in love with your mom.
father of modern psychology
mostly discredited as pseudoscientific, radical behaviourist movement emerged as a reaction to his methods, but he grounded the teleology of detailed symptoms to past experiences/emphasized the importance of early life snowballing effects and the idea that the mind has a cognitive infrastructure
>>2704025
His ideas on dreams don't really hold up if you have experiences or symbolism that differentiate from his.
>>2704075
This, freud gets a lot of shit but even if his findings have been discredited his methodology is still used widely for diagnosing and he himself said he wouldn't be surprised if it happened once medicine developed a better understanding of brain anatomy and pharmaceutical treatment.
>>2704025
Physicist who realized mental problems can result in physical ones.
Created the field of psychoanalysis to answer this problem (and explain WWI) though a lot of his theories go by the "you know I'm right" school of logic most people do acknowledge that there is a subconscious controlling things behind the back due to the aforementioned "mental issues can cause physical ones"
Hmm...and does your gf arouse you like a maternal figure?
>>2704025
>>2704075
>>2704547
His account of maternal love is flawed. Imagine if a baby vulture saw a human as the first thing out of the egg. The vulture would "imprint" on the human. Introduce the mamma vulture, during the son's puberty/adulthood, and see how 'don't give a fuck' the son is in trying to woo his real mom.
Well Freud had a wet nurse during his imprinting phase. So he's given back to the parents. But the instincts, that forbid incest with what you imprint, aren't present. So he struggled with being around a woman called "his mom" but wanting to fuck her during puberty and young adulthood.