To be honest I’m still astonished at the fact there are Freudian therapists at work today. His theories were at best speculative and at worst a mere re-packaging of the christian mythology’s tripartite god into ego, super-ego, and id. Not only are these concoctions evolutionarily implausible (to be polite…) but they lack any basis in empirical evidence.

In short, Freud invented pretty tales and pretended they were scientific, just as colleagues like Jung likewise invented all manner of nonsense about a collective unconscious that once again is evolutionarily implausible and unsupported by any evidence.

It’s enormously sad that psycho-analytic fairytales did, and likely continue to do, so much harm by denying female childhood experience, labeling certain types of female orgasm “immature” and so on. Yes, he was a product of his time, but the influence of his nonsense lingers on even today.

We should all be far more skeptical about the stories we’re told, regardless of who’s doing the telling. As Truzzi so wisely said, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”