"Freud has been called the last of the philosophes. In one sense, psychoanalysis can be seen as the culmination of the Enlightenment project to bring the whole of reality under the control of reason."
(Karen Armstrong on Freud).
Nonsense!
Psychoanalysis has nothing whatsoever to do with reason.
"Thanks to Freud's pioneering work, dreams could be interpreted, subconscious impulses brought to light, and the hidden meaning of ancient myths laid bare."
(Karen Armstrong on Freud).
There is no "work" of Freud - pioneering or otherwise. Dreams cannot now be interpreted thanks to him. No "subconscious impulses" have been "brought to light" thanks to him. And no "meanings" of "myths" are revealed thanks to him.
It is easy to demonstrate that none of these comments of Karen Armstrong on Freud are true.
It is all very well to be charitable to all, even your intellectual opponents but this is simply fawning and over-conventional nonsense and falsification.
Freud did not demonstrate that "reason comprised only the outermost rind of the human mind". Nor that it is "a superficial crusting on a seething melting pot of primitive instincts over which we have little control", as Karen Armstrong claims.
Neither did Freud show that the "mind was a battlefield on which we struggled endlessly with the unconscious forces of our own psyche, with little hope of final resolution."
This is all nonsense, and I repeat that Freud discovered precisely nothing at all.
She is right, however, in her criticisms of his analysis of religion.
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Present to me JUST ONE fact that Freud ascertained and I will take down this blog!