Why do people consider this man the father of psychology? He

>>8979923
>>>/his/
>>>/lit/

>>8979923
It's very easy to shit on Freud (and very popular too--every layman who knows literally nothing about him makes fun of his theory that everyone wants to fuck their mother, which incidentally isn't even what he believed) but a lot of Freud's ideas decent at a higher level--the idea that unconscious forces motivate the part of people's minds that reason about things, the idea that children go through developmental stages where they acquire specific psychological abilities-- these are actually pretty intelligent observations.

The specifics were conjectures that have largely been disconfirmed, and its a real shame that the literary academic left decided to turn psychoanalysis into a fucking meme religion and inject it into their interpretations long after it was discredited, because it makes Freud look worse than he was.

>>8979927
this

>>8979923
he pioneered psychoanalysis, which is the basis of clinical and practice psychiatry/psychology

>>8979923
Nobody in the psychology field considers him to be the father of psychology. The father of the psychoanalytic perspective, yes. I would say the father of psychology was Pavlov. It was the first useful, proven contribution to the field.

>>8979977
It really isn't.
I've seen a couple psychoanalysts, but they seem to be pretty rare. And old.
Like a dying practice

>>8979933
good post

>>8979923
>hating on the father of psychology
nice oedipal complex kiddo

>>8979933
>literary academic left
I think you mean pseudo-left, anon.