Whose grandas were taking the piss out of Freud, that got him all upset?

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  1. Ah Howya Sigmund, do you want to hear about the dream I had last night?

    C’merr to me and I’ll tell ya.

    No, I swear I’m not messing with ya this time, I’ll even lie down on your little bed thing

    Aww g’way out of that ya pigeon looking gobshite

  2. I dunno, do you think an Irish lad took the piss out of him or do you think he admired us? Reading that I’d be inclined to agree with him

  3. Said it, or some xenophobic English tabloid rag or similar claimed he said it?

    Seems VERY unlikely that someone from Austria, especially back then, would have had any particular view of Ireland any more than we would start making up stereotypes about Bavaria.

  4. It was just a line in a move, I don’t believe Freud expressed an opinion one way or another.

  5. Does the title and flair of this post not indicate it isn’t supposed to be taken super serious in terms of being part of the historical record?

  6. Probably worth noting:
    1: He almost certainly never said it
    2: Psychoanalytics is pretty much as scientific an approach to mental wellbeing as astrology
    3: Psychoanlytics still gets results, it’s one of the reasons it’s still used today. He may have been right about a couple of things, even if for the wrong reasons.

  7. Probably worth noting:
    Not everything posted here is supposed to be taken at face value. Some of it is jokes. They might not be funny, but they are also not a serious political discussion

  8. I was reading “The Interpretation of Dreams”. It has interesting theories but one part is Freud just randomly going “by the way, I invented cocaine. You’re welcome everyone”.

  9. What is the point of this post? If the Irish are not like this, they will find it offensive. If the Irish were actually like this, they would also fell attacked…

  10. Ha yeah ok..Freud was in love with is Mother FACT! He felt in some way he had supplanted his father in his mother’s affections during his childhood. …
    He came to realize that, as a boy, he had wanted to marry his mother, and saw his father as a rival for her love. Freud understood his own wishes to be universal among all boys in all cultures thats how messed up he was. Freud was a Fraud…

  11. Just remember, while Freud invented psychoanalysis pretty much everything he has written has been discredited. I would say quoting Freud about mental heal is like using leeches for standard medicine, but leeches are still used in some procedures, nothing of Freud is.

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