(February 6, 2018 at 2:37 am)ohreally Wrote: It sounds like you've only just scratched the surface of Freud. You can spend all the time you want reading and researching Freud and you will still be 100 years behind on modern psychology when you're all done. If you want a historical perspective on the field then that is great. If you actually want to talk on a serious level I would concentrate on research and findings from the last 20 years, as a rough guide.
Yeah, OP doesn't seem to have a tight grasp upon Freudian psychosexual development, nor does he realize that is some of the weakest shit ever produced in the field of psychology.
It sounds like you have read some Freud though, ohreally. I actually think he had some keen insights into human nature, namely that we are more driven by sex and aggression than we realize or would like to admit. Also, the whole iceberg analogy. I don't think the subconscious breaks down quite like Freud thought it did, but still, there are many forces within mind that act below our conscious radar. If you keep him at arms length, and understand how bunk he is on things in general, one can learn a lot from Freud.
