So what you’re saying is that the collective field of Psychology wants to kill its father? Sounds pretty Oedipal to me… XD
The important thing to remember about Freud is that while his ideas may seem spooky to us, you have to consider the ideas he was overturning. Mental issues were seen as everything from the divine spark to a fugitive uterus. He was the first person to examine the psyche with anything resembling rigor and methodology.
Oh yes. People forget that all the time.
Freud is a quack when you consider modern psychology research.
Freud was revolutionary back then because he, gods forbid, actually talked to his patients and tried to figure out what the fuck was going on instead of immediately going “Your uterus is making you do bad things, here, I’ll stab into your brain with a knife and that’ll make you okay”
Maybe his stuff on eel genitals was better but in psychology… no, neither rigor nor methodology are things I’d attest him. Nor getting things meaningfully right despite this. Nor to be the first, given that the psychophysics people were already doing work that’s both scientifically sound and still a solid basis for contemporary work.
Just like the Internet, one of the best ways to get an answer is to confidently state the wrong answer
No one said he was a good father.
Freud being the father of psychology is one Freudian slip from calling him daddy
A Freudian Slip is when you say what you say something that you did not to intend to come out the way it did, typically caused by context or distraction
For example: consider you are hanging out with a busty friend of yours you say, I think you are the breast vs I think you are the best.
That is a Freudian Slip.
In the context of the top level post.
Father and Daddy are interchangable but “daddy” can be used sexually. Freud is well known for his fixation with sex which pins the joke down. Calling Freud - “Daddy” - has quite a few overlaps of humor in the slip.
Edit: Almost any edit is grammar or typo related for me.
