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To: Sir Napsalot
The anti-scientific cast of Freud's mind is clearly indicated by his attempt to bolster his fantasy of the Oedipus complex by a pseudo-scientific theory of the inheritance of impulses from primitive ancestors who murdered their tribal father to acquire his harem of females. When it was pointed out to him that the Lamarkian theory of acquired characteristics was entirely discredited, he querulously replied: "We can't bother with the biologists. We have our own science." - Freud and the Scientific Method

63 posted on 07/13/2012 9:15:11 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Don’t leave out that “scientist” Kinsey. He really helped people.


69 posted on 07/14/2012 3:41:46 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Freud doesn't have much to do with modern academic psychology.

Even psychotherapy and his own field of psychoanalysis embrace ideas and perspectives that Freud rejected or would have rejected (though the analysts don't like to admit it).

79 posted on 07/14/2012 1:43:10 PM PDT by x
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