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wave whisperer
@cymatiste
You'd have to convert these into questions, but... George Simon says the zeitgeist slogan of the Victorian era was "Don't even think about it" vs our current era's "Just do it".
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Chaos
@chaosprime
you can always tell the central question of an era because it's a question the era desperately needs answered and doesn't know how to ask, and that the next era considers insufferably basic
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wave whisperer
@cymatiste
He argues the psychology we've inherited from Freud et al is limited by being formed in an era dominated by neuroticism (hysterical blindness, where ppl lost their sight purely to avoid seeing things that would prompt them to sinful thoughts, was a thing in need of explanation!)
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@cymatiste
In general, posttraumatic psychosomatic problems are documented as such as far back as the late 19th century in physiology. Freud set the work back by about half a century with his made-up pseudotheories, despite having the evidence himself.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@Triquetrea
It starts coming back again post-WW2, and more tellingly, post-Vietnam. But now BS behaviourism is in charge, and it's misconstrued. The theorists had the key elements right in the late 1800s (embodied stress, frozen emotionality, intense but semantically fractured memories)!
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