Freud was a product of his time and environs. It is worth noting that his time and environs were misogynistic, racist, unscientific, elitist and cocaine addicted
yea no, even in the late 1800s there were movements and knowledge that racism, misogyny, etc are bad. i dont buy the excuse that people back then were just a product of their time. i think thats a retro-spective way of looking at the past, seeing how things are ‘better’ today must mean they sucked back then and everyone accepted it as is. Freud had access to the information that bigotry is wrong, he did it anyways. that needs to be acknowledged
Freud was a product of his time and environs. It is worth noting that his time and environs were misogynistic, racist, unscientific, elitist and cocaine addicted
It’s also pretty relevant that psychology has done a lot of improving after his death, which was 86 years ago.
Some would say his environs had a rather jaw dropping effect on the man.
yea no, even in the late 1800s there were movements and knowledge that racism, misogyny, etc are bad. i dont buy the excuse that people back then were just a product of their time. i think thats a retro-spective way of looking at the past, seeing how things are ‘better’ today must mean they sucked back then and everyone accepted it as is. Freud had access to the information that bigotry is wrong, he did it anyways. that needs to be acknowledged
Oh I agree. I was not being apologetic. I was trying to show in a funny way how rotten Freud and his work are