Re:Freud’s Discontents
by mpweiher on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:11AM
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>he was “no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion.”
>it is rather shocking how swiftly, [..] Freud’s relevance has waned in the past two decades
I think the first quote answers the second: it was just a climate of opinion, with very little of substance to back it up. And so it has rightly been discarded. Not that we don't have new fashionable opinions to take its place, many no more substantial.
>It is more common now to regard humanity as lucid about its interests, and rational in its fulfillment of them
Wut? The opposite is true. We are more and more aware of the foibles of human perception and thinking, but nowadays based on a solid scientific foundation, not the fantasies of a ... well, imaginative person.
>it is rather shocking how swiftly, [..] Freud’s relevance has waned in the past two decades
I think the first quote answers the second: it was just a climate of opinion, with very little of substance to back it up. And so it has rightly been discarded. Not that we don't have new fashionable opinions to take its place, many no more substantial.
>It is more common now to regard humanity as lucid about its interests, and rational in its fulfillment of them
Wut? The opposite is true. We are more and more aware of the foibles of human perception and thinking, but nowadays based on a solid scientific foundation, not the fantasies of a ... well, imaginative person.