on freud himself.

right. now in the past ppl never knew anything whatever about the founders/teachers of the various schools. they were also lumbered with this ghastly gushing adulation. so we start wiv a description of freud. just so we can see exactly where there may be weak points in psychoanalytic theory.
1. freud was a genius, no mistake, he was. by himself, with the aid of hypnosis and drugs, he discovered the hinterlands of the mind, and how in general the populations of those unknown 'worlds' affected human behaviour. lots and lots of mechanisms he found are real, they actually do function in those ways.
2. however freud was also a really terrible chauvinist, he was a right tyrant at home, his children were mercilessly exploited and had to keep his 'love' by being exactly like their parent. why i dunno; since freud's best wishes were always directed at his mirror. sometimes its a healthy child who says 'no' to his/her father.
3. he like all victorian gentlemen was dead set on founding, securing and expanding and defending his personal empire. he didn't give a stuff for sick ppl, he didn't give a tinkers cuss about science.
4. so the entire edifice of psychoanalysis is built on freuds OWN subcons; ably assisted as i have said, by drugs dreams and hypnosis.
5. and on exactly 40 female pts, and 1 male. And 1 male child, but that analysis was conducted under his direction by the childs father. A great big no-no-no right there.
6. freud did observe very mad ppl early in his career. and dismissed ALL of them from the purview of psychoanalysis forever, all of them. only rich neurotic females are his prey. oh, and feminine men. they to be trained out of their disgusting illness by what amounts to brainwashing.
7. and now you see exactly whats wrong. because psychoanalysis is all about the male psyche. its all about the 'oedipal' complex. yet he had NO male pts. And frequently denigrated female pts...you can see that from the diagnostics. ALL 40 are 'sickening hysterics/neurotics' understand that wiv their lives in those days they couldn't be anything else. and the various descriptions of the mind developing from infancy? all based on himself and 1 little boy he never actually interviewed himself at all.

so. now you go away and think for yourselves. how could psychoanalysis survive this mangled creatures' lifelong destructive game within a game?

and if you want to know; i don't think it did. he ruined his own therapeutic science. proof that even a genius can be a fool. am going to bed now, but tomorrow we start on the theories of freud, how he kept changing them and also that every one of them is based on an image drawn from the engineering of his day; water, coal and electricity. goodnight, gerry.