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Masspoint t1_j46hsqg wrote

Reply to comment by AddaleeBlack in Nietzsche is better understood as the Father of Psychoanalysis than Existentialism; his philosophy has two components: the diagnosis of our culture's Decadence (under the Ascetic Ideal) and a prescription for health in the Dionysian Counter-Ideal by thelivingphilosophy

I studied psychology a couple of decades back that was still after the book, why freud was wrong.

Many things by freud are still used and accepted, it's not because a lot of his work is debatable or even plain wrong that he didn't lay the groundwork for psychology in general and that he had a major influenece that is still in effect in various fields.

The concept of the id is something that never really went away, and same thing for the ego and its defense mechanisms.

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