Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

Psychology is just a bunch of theories. Freud's theories are no more, or less, valid than any theory you could come up with.

Yes, but without Freud there would be no language to underpin psychoanalysis. For all his mistakes he remains one of the most original thinkers of all time.

A good example is the Myers/ Briggs personality test that most every corporate employer uses now. Neither one of them had any experience or education in psychology. They read Jung's work on archetypes and somehow became the authorities on human personalities without any research

Myers/ Briggs tests are a lot of fun, though. Like reading tea leaves or Tarot, they lend a framework for the reader to say what is probably on his mind anyways.

It's no more accurate than astrological signs.

Yet he is held up as the Master of Psychology when I was in school. I am still mad about it.

It was probably largely unknown about his habits back then.

feminists/J. Masson accused him of covering up paternal child abuse in abandoning his seduction theory but this may have been misunderstanding: "incest was only an extreme example of the kind of wide-ranging experience encompassed by the seduction theory." http://esterson.org/Masson_and_Freuds_seduction_theory.htm …