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Re:What should we make of the return of Sigmund Freud? by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:46PM (#38636816)
> The Oedipal complex is not "true" or "false," it describes the universal process of socialization

A description of a universal process is either false (the universal process does not exist as a universal process), or false (the universal process does exist but the description is inaccurate), or true (the universal process exists and the description is accurate).

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Re:What should we make of the return of Sigmund Freud? by DiscourseFan on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:00PM (#38637267)
It's universal only insofar as it is based on empirical evidence. Psychoanalysis always begins from empirical claims. There is nothing transcendental or purely intelligible here.
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Re:What should we make of the return of Sigmund Freud? by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:31PM (#38637800)
> It's universal only insofar as it is based on empirical evidence.

The most prominent criticism of Freud on this issue, AFAICT, seems to be that it is, in fact, not based on or supportable by empirical evidence.

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