Freud swept his intellectual peers off their feet and seduced a century–but now he looks like a con man, propounding elegant nonsense with no basis in evidence. The fact that a scientist of the stature of Freud could fall into disrepute is an important lesson in the history of science.
FAMOUS QUOTE FROM SIGMUND FREUD for your comment/agreement/rebuttal:
And a quote:
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. [...] If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.”
–Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 1939
When I took intro to psych 20+ years ago, the professor pointed out that each branch of psychology had a 12% cure rate. He also said hugging therapy had a 12% cure rate. I pointed out that this probably meant that 12% get better on their own. He was offended. I was given a B even though I had scores for an A.
At some point, Marxism will be rejected by academics, real research will be done, and enormous advances will be accomplished in just a few years. There is a Renaissance around the corner, though I may not live to see it.
One is reminded of the sinister organization called N.I.C.E.in C.S. Lewis's science fiction trilogy - especially the third book entitled THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH.
The story is set in England of the mid 1940s ("vaguely after the war"), in the small university town of Edgestow, centered around a young university don Mark Studdock, a fellow of Bracton College at the University of Edgestow, and his wife Jane (née Tudor), who is working on her graduate degree in poetry. The National Institute of Coordinated Experiments ("N.I.C.E."), a scientific and social planning agency, furtively pursues its program of the exploitation of nature and the annihilation of humanity. The Institute is secretly inspired and directed by fallen eldila, whom they refer to as "macrobes", superior beings. Their takeover of Edgestow and its surrounding area is a case in point of the manner in which they use human pride and greed to get what they want. After the N.I.C.E. would achieve its ends, the earth would only belong to the "macrobes". Set against the N.I.C.E.'s operations is a small resistance group led by Dr. Elwin Ransom, who following his journeys to Mars and Venus, is now directed by the good eldila there, as well as those of Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter. These eldila, previously blocked from accessing Earth, "the silent planet", are now unhindered, as that silence had first been breached by Weston and Devine when they left the earth to travel to Malacandra (Mars) in Out of the Silent Planet. Ransom's group consists of humans and animals living in unity and harmony, in stark contrast to the division and political maneuverings within the N.I.C.E...read more....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength