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(Not in this article) He still believes in Freud.
In fact, he counts him as one of the three most important modern thinkers, along with Marx, I believe, and another one.
I'm fine with Marx, it's debatable, but Freud, there is no question about it: he was a fraud, pun not even intended. None of his work has any relevance in modern psychiatry, clinical psychology or social psychology. None. Today he is cited in 1 in 10000 articles in those disciplines IIRC, and that's negatively.
If I were to take my pick, I would choose Milgram and Darwin, no doubt about it; they definitely had more influence on our understanding of human nature than any of those Onfray mentions.


A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.
by nicta (nico@altiva․fr) on Sat Feb 9th, 2008 at 06:06:01 AM EST
That has to count, for a writer.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 04:59:12 AM EST
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A few hundred pages each of cocaine-induced writing mania. If he had a point, he should have been able to make it more succintly.
And most of it derived from the littlest of empirical evidence. He writes at length about Anna O. or another patient of his; in all probably no more than half a dozen. In medicine, that is just ridiculous.
He writes hundred on pages on Leonardo; and concludes to his homosexuality based on a pun in german. I shit you not: Leonardo once wrote he had dreamt of a bird landing on his bed or something. Freud runs with this, pointing out (wrongly, it turns out) that the egyptian bird-god is "Mut" (in Egyptian (which Leonardo doesn't speak)), which sounds like "mutter" (in German (which Leonardo probably doesn't speak either)), and ... that's why he was gay.
The ellipsis in the previous sentence covers maybe 200 pages.

A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.
by nicta (nico@altiva․fr) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 09:22:17 AM EST
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