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Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
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Sigmund Freud? the man was a walking nutcase himself with more mental hangups than most of his patients combined.
from the article ...
"Along with this, Freud developed his theory of “penis envy” in girls and women. Seeing the father, who has a penis, as the seat of power and authority in the home, stated
Freud:
“Girls hold their mother responsible for their lack of a penis and do not forgive her for their being thus put at a disadvantage.”
Freud actually was a MD (
University of Vienna (
MD, 1881) and as such in
1933 when he gave the lecture you cite should have known that as far back as
1905 modern biology had clearly established the father as the sole determiner of the sex of a child.
biology. According to most biologists and historians who have written on the subject, the crucial step in the discovery of chromosomal sex determination was taken in
1905 by Nettie M. Stevens (1861-1912) and Edmund B. Wilson (1856-1939).
the "Father of modern Psychoanalysis" was a "mommy obsessed" nutcase.
oh and there is this ...
Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within
psychology,
psychiatry,
psychotherapy, and across the
humanities. It thus continues to
generate extensive and highly contested debate concerning its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or hinders the feminist cause
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud