He didn’t create the field though? Psychology existed before Freud, Wundt was putting out journals while Freud was still in college. If anything, Freud ruined a lot of psychology’s early momentum, and largely contributed to it being seen as an illegitimate science even today.
I mean, yeah, okay, technically you’re correct. I should have been more careful with how I phrased things. I know people on the internet are pedantic. I should have seen this coming. Freud didn’t invent studying the mind, he just popularized the idea of, you know, actually using it to help people. The fact that he was bad at doing that doesn’t make it a bad idea.
What would have happened if he hadn’t come along and done that is just a story you made up. It has no basis in reality. Maybe we’d be living in a magical utopia where nothing bad would ever happen anymore. I can’t prove that isn’t true. It’s not really a helpful thing to discuss though.
He didn’t create the field though? Psychology existed before Freud, Wundt was putting out journals while Freud was still in college. If anything, Freud ruined a lot of psychology’s early momentum, and largely contributed to it being seen as an illegitimate science even today.
I mean, yeah, okay, technically you’re correct. I should have been more careful with how I phrased things. I know people on the internet are pedantic. I should have seen this coming. Freud didn’t invent studying the mind, he just popularized the idea of, you know, actually using it to help people. The fact that he was bad at doing that doesn’t make it a bad idea.
What would have happened if he hadn’t come along and done that is just a story you made up. It has no basis in reality. Maybe we’d be living in a magical utopia where nothing bad would ever happen anymore. I can’t prove that isn’t true. It’s not really a helpful thing to discuss though.