The important thing to remember about Freud is that while his ideas may seem spooky to us, you have to consider the ideas he was overturning. Mental issues were seen as everything from the divine spark to a fugitive uterus. He was the first person to examine the psyche with anything resembling rigor and methodology.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Side note: Fugitive Uterus would be a good all women punk band name.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yes. People forget that all the time.

Freud is a quack when you consider modern psychology research.

Freud was revolutionary back then because he, gods forbid, actually talked to his patients and tried to figure out what the fuck was going on instead of immediately going "Your uterus is making you do bad things, here, I'll stab into your brain with a knife and that'll make you okay"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe his stuff on eel genitals was better but in psychology.. no, neither rigor nor methodology are things I'd attest him. Nor getting things meaningfully right despite this. Nor to be the first, given that the psychophysics people were already doing work that's both scientifically sound and still a solid basis for contemporary work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I could get past ch 2 in madness & civ