The Cult of Sigmund Freud
I wholly distrust anything freudian. Every major claim he made I keep finding serious flaws in it.<p>Freud did not popularize the unconscious or thinking about how you think. Basic children&#x27;s sunday school at a Church even talks about how you think. Major religions from Christianity to Buddhism talk about how the thought life of a person affects everything and the split and conflicted nature of humans. They just don&#x27;t use post-freudian terms like conscious and unconscious.<p>What freud popularized was a secular way of coping with how humans think, analyzing it in a purely secular context and considering thousands of years of knowledge on the subject as childish fairytales and defining a framework by which a modern secular world can explain the actions of people and respond to them.<p>Socially, I have seen horrific impacts of his work from criminal punishment to people attempting to understand and help people who have chosen to be evil (worst examples being child rapists, school shooters,etc... not sick, evil! But evil has no place in  a freudian context).<p>This documentary shared on HN a while back was eye opening for me, how almost every aspect of modern capitalist life was influenced by freud:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&amp;feature=youtu.be">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&amp;feature=youtu.be</a> (Century of the self). Worth watching the whole thing.<p>I don&#x27;t discount psychoanalysis as quackery but I am very hostile to it. I would need to filter any attempts of psychoanalytical thinking with a ton if critical analysis, taking it with buckets of salt!