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Re:What should we make of the return of Sigmund Freud? by thfuran on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:43PM (#38636795)
>there's clearly something true about it. It's not all true, not even close, and as a predictive model it is extremely weak; the ways it's not true is really important

In what way is it clear that there's something true there?

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Re:What should we make of the return of Sigmund Freud? by qarl on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:25PM (#38637053)
I don't know much about Freud and his theories - but as one example - I'd say that his concept of defense mechanisms seems pretty spot on.

The last few years have given us many examples of psychological projection.

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Re:What should we make of the return of Sigmund Freud? by ajkjk on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:52PM (#38650788)
A lot of his basic ideas are so enmeshed into our public conception of how people work that we don't even realize they come from him, the main example being the basic ideas of "subconsciousness" and "repression". The interpretation of dreams stuff is definitely not as predictive as he claimed, but it's definitely got something to it; compared to "thinking dreams are random and meaningless" it's definitely a better theory to guess that they involve repressed stuff. Etc.
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