{"quotes":[{"text":"Dear Sigmund,Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit.'Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["bedsit","multiple-personality-disorder","personalities","personality","philosophy","psychology","sigmund","sigmund-freud"],"id":14810,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei.","author":"John Irving","tags":["freud","novelists","psychiatrists","science","sigmund-freud"],"id":24124,"author_id":"John+Irving"},{"text":"The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. Some of those who have asked it have added that if it should turn out that life has no purpose, it would lose all value for them. But this threat alters nothing. It looks, on the contrary, as though one had a right to dismiss the question, for it seems to derive from the human presumptuousness, many other manifestations of which are already familiar to us. Nobody talks about the purpose of the life of animals, unless, perhaps, it may be supposed to lie in being of service to man. But this view is not tenable either, for there are many animals of which man can make nothing, except to describe, classify and study them; and innumerable species of animals have escaped even this use, since they existed and became extinct before man set eyes on them.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["freud","freudian","happiness","purpose-of-life","pursuit-of-happiness","on-happiness","on-purpose-of-human-life","sigmund-freud"],"id":26127,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"The degradation of most civilizations, contain a common thread. The 'synagogue of Satan' is behind all weaponized ignorance and hate.","author":"Paul Boggs","tags":["christianity","god","jesus-christ","jewish","psychology","satanism","sigmund-freud","wilhelm-wundt"],"id":53308,"author_id":"Paul+Boggs"},{"text":"We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. What do they demand of life and wish to achieve in it? The answer to this can hardly be in doubt. They strive for happiness; they want to become happy and to remain so. This endeavor has two sides, a positive and a negative aim. It aims, on the one hand, at an absence of pain and unpleasure, and, on the other, at the experiencing of strong feelings of pleasure. In its narrower sense the word 'happiness' only relates to the last. In conformity with this dichotomy in his aims, man's activity develops in two directions, according as it seeks to realize — in the main, or even exclusively — the one or the other of these aims.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["freud","freudian","happiness","happiness-in-life","life","philosophical","philosophy","pursuit-of-happiness","sigmund-freud"],"id":102924,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.","author":"Adolf Grünbaum","tags":["freud","insight","patient","psychoanalysis","self-discovery","sigmund-freud","therapy"],"id":142749,"author_id":"Adolf+Gr%C3%BCnbaum"},{"text":"The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience is vague. But it is more than sharp enough to make a distinction between many physical theories on the one hand, and metaphysical theories, such as psychoanalysis, or Marxism (in its present form), on the other. This is, of course, one of my main theses; and nobody who has not understood it can be said to have understood my theory.The situation with Marxism is, incidentally, very different from that with psychoanalysis. Marxism was once a scientific theory: it predicted that capitalism would lead to increasing misery and, through a more or less mild revolution, to socialism; it predicted that this would happen first in the technically highest developed countries; and it predicted that the technical evolution of the 'means of production' would lead to social, political, and ideological developments, rather than the other way round.But the (so-called) socialist revolution came first in one of the technically backward countries. And instead of the means of production producing a new ideology, it was Lenin's and Stalin's ideology that Russia must push forward with its industrialization ('Socialism is dictatorship of the proletariat plus electrification') which promoted the new development of the means of production.Thus one might say that Marxism was once a science, but one which was refuted by some of the facts which happened to clash with its predictions (I have here mentioned just a few of these facts).However, Marxism is no longer a science; for it broke the methodological rule that we must accept falsification, and it immunized itself against the most blatant refutations of its predictions. Ever since then, it can be described only as nonscience—as a metaphysical dream, if you like, married to a cruel reality.Psychoanalysis is a very different case. It is an interesting psychological metaphysics (and no doubt there is some truth in it, as there is so often in metaphysical ideas), but it never was a science. There may be lots of people who are Freudian or Adlerian cases: Freud himself was clearly a Freudian case, and Adler an Adlerian case. But what prevents their theories from being scientific in the sense here described is, very simply, that they do not exclude any physically possible human behaviour. Whatever anybody may do is, in principle, explicable in Freudian or Adlerian terms. (Adler's break with Freud was more Adlerian than Freudian, but Freud never looked on it as a refutation of his theory.)The point is very clear. Neither Freud nor Adler excludes any particular person's acting in any particular way, whatever the outward circumstances. Whether a man sacrificed his life to rescue a drowning, child (a case of sublimation) or whether he murdered the child by drowning him (a case of repression) could not possibly be predicted or excluded by Freud's theory; the theory was compatible with everything that could happen—even without any special immunization treatment.Thus while Marxism became non-scientific by its adoption of an immunizing strategy, psychoanalysis was immune to start with, and remained so. In contrast, most physical theories are pretty free of immunizing tactics and highly falsifiable to start with. As a rule, they exclude an infinity of conceivable possibilities.","author":"Karl R. Popper","tags":["adler","adlerian","alfred-adler","alfred-w-adler","clarity","cruel","demarcation","difficulty","falsifiable","freud","freudian","infinite","karl-heinrich-marx","karl-marx-marx-marxism","marxism","point","possibility","psychoanalysis","psychology","reality","revolution","rule","science","scientific-theory","sigmund-freud","socialism","treatment","vague"],"id":247739,"author_id":"Karl+R.+Popper"},{"text":"A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["religion","sigmund-freud"],"id":284551,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["make-believe","religion","sigmund-freud"],"id":324137,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.","author":"Gian-Carlo Rota","tags":["analogies","freud","freudian","math","mathematics","motivation","same","science","scientists","sigmund-freud","study","understanding"],"id":332595,"author_id":"Gian-Carlo+Rota"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}