thank god you're hereif the oedipus complex has been widely rejected in modern psychoanalysis what replaced it?
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Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank,
Wed 3 Jun 2009, 20:57,
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bloody hellyou'll need to let me think about that. I'm not a big believer in psychoanalysis... I go at psychology from the scientific angle, so would favour cognitive behavioural techniques...
hmm... so you mean, which theory accounts for the things that the oedipus complex used to account for? The thing is, it's a theory that was used for a wild and wide range of things. Insecure? You want to fuck your mum. Schizophrenic? You've wanted to fuck your mum all your life, now you're mental. You fuck your mum? hmmm
So, rather than it being replaced per se, it's really just been chucked out, with analysts, I believe, preferring a more specific approach to people's problems, based on findings relating to psychoanalysis. It's just too simple and, primarily the problem that it's unproven as a hypothesis for anything, Freud just dreamed it up, like an incredible amount of his work. Some of it was good, some of it wasn't, but very little of his stuff had evidence... and thereafter the scientific method was born in the field of psychology.
(hmm... so you mean, which theory accounts for the things that the oedipus complex used to account for? The thing is, it's a theory that was used for a wild and wide range of things. Insecure? You want to fuck your mum. Schizophrenic? You've wanted to fuck your mum all your life, now you're mental. You fuck your mum? hmmm
So, rather than it being replaced per se, it's really just been chucked out, with analysts, I believe, preferring a more specific approach to people's problems, based on findings relating to psychoanalysis. It's just too simple and, primarily the problem that it's unproven as a hypothesis for anything, Freud just dreamed it up, like an incredible amount of his work. Some of it was good, some of it wasn't, but very little of his stuff had evidence... and thereafter the scientific method was born in the field of psychology.
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Wed 3 Jun 2009, 21:14,
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