Psychoanalysis

I recall reading an interesting book on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the philosophy of science that helped to elucidate this issue. I think it helps to see the general principles underlying psychoanalysis as a metapsychology (as that is indeed how Freud saw it) that goes beyond what ordinary psychology studies as a discipline. It's not really pseudoscience but it's hardly empirically verifiable either. It's just philosophizing about the unconscious

>>9951007
>What's your opinion on it?
Freud was a genius

Freud's theory of psychosexual stages occuring in early childhood is simply impossible. A child's nervous system is not complex enough for anything that Freud believed to occur at such a young age.

>>9951007
it's all correct, unfortunately

>>9951007
Jung did a better job

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>>9951075
>the mind is physical

>>9951007

The medical profession doesn't follow what Freud said (he didn't test anything), but the total influence he had on the social sciences is remarkable - he's one of the most cited sources in all academia. His ideas transcend time and in many ways, he's right about neuroses and the importance of childhood experiences and talking about trauma (although the pharmacology industry just wants to feed you pills). He definitely read the Greeks

He didn't win the Nobel because of the Swedish Academy's antisemitism

>>9951007
Dope af

>>9951119
Erickson*

>>9951075
what about the new research suggesting puberty may begin much earlier than we suspected?

>>9951028
You remember that reference, Anon? Sounds quite interesting.

>>9951119
I agree, he made it actually verifiable
Too bad I'm a lazy shit and will never show it academically ayy

Garbage.