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Hey /lit/, I was thinking of buying The Interpretation of Dreams, but before doing so I googled it to read reviews. Apparently, there's a ridiculous and pointless emphasis on sex from start to end, and most of Freud's theories are considered outdated and downright wrong these days. Are both of those issues true? I'm sure a lot of people here have read the book. Oh, and another question: how difficult is it?

>> No.1741008

not difficult. fun

>> No.1741007

Both issues are true

>> No.1741009

You can get the Wordworth Edition of it for like £3. Go for it.

Also, the sex obsession isn't as pronounced in this book as some of his other work.

>> No.1741016

he is a 19th century boy pissed off by bourgeois morals.

>> No.1741027

>>1741007

I saw that coming. Okay, why is the book so goddamn popular then? Is it because it's entertaining?

>>1741009

This guy was absolutely nuts about sex, wasn't he?

>> No.1741031

ignore all the cognitive psych freshmen who bitch and moan about Freud OP

>> No.1741034

>>1741027

Yes, he was, but some books of his are readable despite it.

I haven't read Interpretation for a while, but I recall if focusing more on violence than sex.

>> No.1741040

>>1741034

Okay, I'll get it. I knew you could get it for like $2, but I wasn't sure if those issues would make me feel like reading it was a waste of time. Thanks for the help.

>> No.1741041

big parts of freuds ideas are outdated but he played a valuable role in our understanding of the subconscious side of our cognition

>> No.1741052

Get a cheap copy from the local college library. Itll be like $1

Freud is generally considered outdated and his theories debunked, but he stands as an important figure in popularising psychology. Reading Freud gives you an insight into the prevailing mindset that swarmed the nation. Freud was the Justin Bieber of his time.

>> No.1741061

>>1741031
Oh look, a mentally troubled tripfag defending an outdated concept that fails to help him with it's approach of feeding him generalized accusations about traumatizing childhood events.

>> No.1741066

How can it be outdated? It's not like there are rules to interpret dreams or even anything that we know, as facts, about dreams.

>> No.1741065

>>1741031
how about we just ignore you instead dickface

>> No.1741071

Do you want to know why people still read frued, and still should read frued? It's because every thinker for around forty years after was influenced by him. J.D Salinger, Jean Paul Sarte, countless others were all analyzed -- and, quite likely, Fruedianism influenced their theory of mind. This is why psychoanalytic criticism of literature is still an acceptable form of criticism -- because for decades people put the stuff into their books, and people still naively use the ideas of projection, repression, etc.

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1741092

CG Jung is funnier. Equally outdated, but he's without a doubt my favorite Beatle.

>> No.1741097

>most of Freud's theories are considered outdated and downright wrong these days
it was written in 1913, have a guess

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>>1741092

Freud essentially engineered modern psychoanalysis and the current way we look at the mind and thus all of human history and culture.

Jung was a quasi-mystical quack who is frequently wheeled out to justify absurd interpretations of the world.

>> No.1741127

>>1741101

>quasi-mystical quack

You say that like it's a bad thing and like Freud wasn't one as well

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All I have to say is that Freud was clearly projecting. He had a filthy mind and yes, those cigars of his were cocks.

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