What Freud was right about: sex is important. What Freud was wrong about: everything else.https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1089833856700727296 …
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My biggest frustration with Freud is that he read Darwin, was inspired by his sexual selection theory, then pretended he'd invented every sexual insight himself, without really understanding evolution. Nietzsche fell into the same temptation to hide his intellectual influences.
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Suggested readings about Darwin's influence on Freud: 'Freud, Biologist of the Mind' by Frank Sulloway (1983) 'Darwin's Influence on Freud' by Lucille Ritvo (1990)
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Mine is that he was a dogmatist with no sense of intellectual humility. He created a supremely creative—even if borrowing heavily from others—but ultimately erroneous edifice. Then he defended it viciously, creating a personality cult in the processs
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First sign of a cult: all criticism is explained away as some type of subversive moral, or psychology, failing of the person doing the criticism.
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Haven't read enough of him to have an informed opinion. Sounds interesting from what limited knowledge I have.
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What Harold Bloom called the anxiety of influence.
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Nietzsche seemed pretty open about his influences from Spinoza, Schopenhauer, and Greek & Hebrew literature.
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The number of people today not hiding their inspiration by Darwin should frustrate you more.
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would a 1900s miller say the same thing?
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