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Why do non-psychologists talk so much about Freud? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Modern psychology doesn't necessarily support a subconscious, either. At best some individual practitioners like the concept.

Freud's big contribution was therapy, or a "talking cure" as he called it. The rest was cocaine-fueled nonsense

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is bullshit. Everyone with a pulse knows the brain processes information unconsciously. It’s the basis for most of cognitive psychology, in fact.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unconsciously, sure. Like, it turns three colour channels into a rainbow plus shades. Subconsciously, no, there's no (measured) suppressed self that wants to fuck mom or whatever.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Of course there is. For example there’s the study where they brushed chairs with testosterone.

The response to that chemical being present demonstrates goal-driven personality operating below the level of consciousness.

Uncovering unconscious motivations is like 95% of therapy. Everything that isn’t yet articulated is the subconscious.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 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.