Most psychologists don’t care about Freud’s work outside of a historical sense and kinda hate him as a person. His work was quite literally used as an example of pseudoscience by Karl Popper.

And yet for some reason philosophers have an obsession with integrating his views into their work and artists keep using his views as inspiration and analyze existing works via the lens of psychoanalysis.

Why?

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    6 months ago

    Uncovering unconscious motivations is like 95% of therapy.

    I’ve done a ton of it, from multiple different practitioners, and none of it was like that. It was more about changing habits and examining conscious but unchallenged beliefs.

    Even good psych has replication problems. I don’t know where your funky chair study was published or the methodology and sample size, but I’m skeptical that amounts to a lot of evidence of anything.