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Originally Posted by the guy who be short
I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology?
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No, no, no... You're thinking of fantastic people like Plato (with his concept that knowledge is innate and that reality is what you think it is), Aristotle (with his idea that knowledge can only be gained through experience and that the only true reality is that which is concrete in our world), Descartes (cogito, ergo sum), Hobbes (monoism), Lock (agreed with Aristotle)... And in the 18th century, people like Hume and Kant. Then you had guys like Wundt and James, and then finally you get Freud, who was the father of psychoanalysis and his work was sort of the turning point in psychology that made it what it is today, but his fascination with psychosexual everything has been challenged or changed by so many people that it's annoying. Even my professor told us that we're only learning about him because we have to and that we'll hear far more about him in writing courses discussing psychoanalytic theory. A literary theory I also send to Mordor. Basically, the only Freudian concept still commonly in use, as explained to me by my professor, is that early experiences mold who you become later in life.
So by sending Freud to Mordor, I'm sending only his crackpot theories with him. The good ones can stay.
