Does anyone else think Sigmund Freud was a paedophile?
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as in boys want to sleep with their mothers and such?
nah i dont think he was a peado.... have you read his dream interpritations too?? 99% of those refer to sex ie if you dream of a pencil it means you are dreaming of a mans member
i think he may have been slightly perverted perhaps, his nature nurture theory was good though.
he was probably a little confused sexually, thats why he became a psychiatrist, he could pretend that we all have these urges but are just not listening to ourselves.
I'm not sure he was a paedophile I have never found evidence in his works that he sexually assaulted children. I do however think in his later work he was shall I we say strange. We have to remember though that many of his basic findings are still used in psychotherapy today.
I studied some of his work in a Development of Religion course which triggered my interest so I did some more research on Freud. I agree with you completely. He is just plain weird.
no2islam i think you are an unknowledgable prat but there we go!!
no i dont think that freud was a pedophile. I think that he was trying to prove a very valuable point and that is that we all have the ability to develop psychosexually from a very young age. Read a little deeper into his work then you ll know what i mean.
Freud mainly did research on middle aged women. He had one child subject, a boy. The fact that his theory revolves around the sexual development from babyhood to teenage, doesnt necessarily mean he studies actual kids. There are lots of theories about the development of children. Are all researchers paedophiles?
If anything, Freud was fixated on his mother. Read a bit more!
I've read Freud extensively in my studies. Freud was an absolute genius. His work has been challenged and developed by many. One must bear in mind the era in which he lived. I don't believe there is any evidence whatsoever to suggest he was a paedophile.
i dont think he was,i think he had an enormous amount of interest in sexual behaviour,yang had the hang up,his theory was weird,you use a fork and he had a sexual explanation for it.
Didn't know him, but his work stood out because it was bold and eye-brow raising. He kind of used marketing to get his points across.
I've read some of his work for psychology classes in high school and college. I suspect he had some sexual hang-ups that may have influenced his work but I've seen nothing to suggest he was a pedophile. Just because he thought sexual development started before puberty doesn't mean he wanted to bone kids himself - bit of a big leap in logic there...
If you think from reading Freud's theories of psychosexual development that he was a paedophile, then you probably need to read them again, and keep doing that until you actually understand them.
While much of Freud's interpretive work seems to focus on unfulfilled sexual desire as a driving force, nothing in the theory of psychosexual development suggests child sex abuse.
I`ve seen no evidence to support it he does seem to have had an unhealthy fascination with his mother though ,but that`s NOT paedophillia by any stretch of the imagination.
Having fantasies about his mother (if he did) was an Oedippus complex.
I do not think he was a paedophile, I think Freud had his own unresolved issues Re: the opposite sex, i.e. his nanny (who it is said molested Freud) and his young and beautiful mother who adored Freud, and Freud her. However, if we was to read Freud without prejudice, I'm sure we would agree the mistakes that were made by not allowing him to speak as openly as he could I believe Freud was a man before his time, and was uncovering Paedophilia more than 100 years ago, so if he was a paedophile why would he want to expose paedophiles. The question you should have asked was, "was the circle of analysis's around at the time of Freud,
paedophiles, for the simple reason they wanted him silenced because they was uncomfortable with his speeches?
he had some very odd ideas granted, not sure if he was a paedophile tho?? His theories are great to citicise and promote others as alternatives e.g erikson's life stage development. Personally I don't think little boys wants to sleep with their mums but if you study little children (steady on I'm a student social worker!!) you can see some of the envy stuff, I think its more to do with attachment than sexuality though.
It was a long time ago . . .
l think Freud was a Fraud!
Freud was very pessimistic and his psychosexual development stages do sound tortureous, paedophile may be a bit strong but perverted certainly has a place there!
i have read freud and the guy was simply a PIG..he was fascinated with genitals and defication and urination and such, sounds to me like the guy needed a shrink of his own...he was a disgusting individual
Well, maybe he got a little too deep into psycho-analysis...and lost his reasoning...and self-control...that is still wrong...even if he was a great thinker...I suppose...
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