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FREUD

                                             July 22, 2024

      Two chains of thought about Freud:

  Freud's claims to being                  Freud's ideas about "sexual
  "scientific" are unsupportable,          repression" were a huge
  he was most charitably a                 influence on the Zeitgeist of
  philosopher, most accurately             the last century, they were a
  a pseudo-scientist and                   constant underlying factor
  medical fraud.                           setting the tone for recurrent
                                           attempts at relaxing sexual
  Despite this, for many years             rules.
  Freud and related forms of
  "psychoanalysis" were granted            Freud's influence was not
  a tremendous amount of respect           at all deserved, and it
  among people bright enough to            doesn't at all justify
  know better.                             anything about the con
                                           he was running... but it
  The case of Freud is a                   was definitely there.
  prime example of failure
  of collective judgement,                         SEXREP_TO_SEXREV
  a failure of intellectual
  filters.                                         THE_PLASTIC_FALLACY

  THE_FREUD_SYNDROME


Frederick C. Crews against the Freudoids:

            THE_ANTI_FREUD_CREW
            APPY_POLY_OGGIES
            SEXREP_TO_SEXREV

            CIRCULAR_FREUD



David Auerbach's "Bitwise: A Life in Code" (2018):

            BITWASTES_PSYCHO



            PENIS_ENVY


The question: why not until the 90s?
E.g. here:

            FREUDS_GARDNER


One answer: there was some earlier.
                                                  Consider Popper and
Another answer: full access to Freud's            "Demarcation".
papers only happened in 1985.





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