His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.
He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers.
At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed.
But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.
So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged.
Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.
By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.
And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.
And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.
Can you provide academic citations for this? This is really neat.
If you want some more, just google, “Sigmund Freud Seduction Theory Problematic.” There’s lots of academic and non-academic discussion on the topic, but TLDR Sigmund Freud is basically disregarded in almost all aspects of psychology by anyone who actually cares about their patients, so fuck that guy for holding psychology back.
Words cannot express how much I hate Freud. His theories have been entirely disproven by current psychological research, but using him to interpret literary texts is still a widely accepted technique in the field of literary study today.
English departments across the country will not bat an eye at tenured professors bringing Freud into lectures and citing him in scholarly articles and books. Doing a “Freudian reading” of a literary character or theme is regarded as a valid means of understanding and drawing meaning from works by authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. And it is based entirely on this guy’s unbelievably sexist, flat-out fraudulent, and thoroughly disproven research. It’s insane.
Just so everyone on my dash is aware that Freud’s theories are pseudoscience.
I too hate Freud and everything he stands for. I just wish people knew why I hate him so much.
Oh, FUCK my creative writing teachers for insisting that we learn this shit.
Everyone, stick to Jung. He was Freud’s student, disagreed with his theories, and was ostracised by Freud.
I’m so glad to find out that Freud was a Fraud. (See what I did there?) It validates my hatred of his stupid-arse theories. Wish I was still at uni so I could bring this up with all my teachers and refuse to learn Freudian analysis.
I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.
Hayao Miyazaki has said on numerous occasions that he wants children to know that even when the world seems harsh and life is hard, it is always still worth living, and there is always something beautiful in it.
That mental health boost is intentional and Miyazaki wants you to believe that you should continue to live, even if just for those little things.
i sometimes wonder…..do pokemon trainers ever experience ‘evolution regret’ on the odd occasion?? like there are some serious size differences in some lines loool
Do I detect a hint of… bedsharing? Mutual pining perhaps?
Ahh…subtle undercurrents of fake relationships
I’m getting strong notes of slow burn and friends to lovers, with a touch of smut at the finish
*drops an enormous box wine on the table*
This is just smut. Entirely smut. This smut has never even seen a plot.
Yeah that’s my order
*rolls up with a growler of 16% craft beer*
OH MY GOD
*slams growler on the table*
THEY WERE ROOMMATES
*delicately sets 4-pack of violently neon green RTDs on the table* Stuck in a car. In a snowstorm. Middle of nowhere. V. Cold. Only one character has a Big Fluffy Coat. Cuddling with a side of mutual pining. Best served with a slice of Things Mumbled While They Think The Other Character Is Asleep.
*Comes in with a hand full of those tiny alcohol bottles you see at the checkout* onshots!
“You’re either on this high train by now or The Winter Soldier using Rocket Raccoon as a side-arm won’t mean shit to you. Don’t you see … they’re both cyborgs rebelling against their destructive programming to do good … Dad? Why aren’t you listening to me?”
Sandra Soapbox Cosplay 