I Hate Freud soooo much!!

Okay,

Now, this next statement is of personal opinion I assure you, but I've for many-many years have always believed Freud to be a mother-loving idiot! (Yes, I did just take an Oedipus-complex crack!)

I've always thought that Freud was about as accurate in his portrayal of the human mind as Salvador Dali was in his portrayal of the female body!(Side note: Dali was a follower of Freud, and heavily influenced by him.) I'm in constant disagreement with his theories, and I rarely see eye to eye with him.

I frankly think Freud needed mental help more often then he gave it, for these reasons:
His ideas on interpersonal interaction is isolating to a man’s person. It would not function on any real world basis where we are forced, and thrive off of interpersonal human interaction. There is of course something to be said about “looking within to realize your true strength”, but in Freud’s world it seems that’s about as far as it goes. He didn’t seem too focused on looking in and then abstracting the redeemable qualities of man to better his world or self. He wanted us to look within, see how dirty we are, sulk in our perverseness, then come to a point where we feel comfortable with glorifying our own lacking— without striving to over come them. He offered no cure for the worse aspect of man, but simple was content in indulging in it, it would seem.

Freud viewed everything as more of a self discovery, as though the human being was some sort of mystical frontier to be explored. This is idealism without evidence to justify it. (It is like eating psychological rice-cakes; it’s big and bulky, but can’t actually satisfy.)

I think Freud spent too much time simply reflecting within, in which case he didn’t find a mystical frontier of a man to explore, he found a waste-land of penis-envy. There was no grace to Freud’s theories, he highlighted and obsessed about the latter aspects of man. He utterly over-looked, or could not find the things that were redeemable in man. I believe he was spending too much time looking in, in self-judgment, insecurity and disappointment to of ever seen how the healthy-redeemable man functioned.
He had rhetoric of selfishness; he was focused on the self. I can not imagine how anyone can have any love, or sense of grace towards their fellow man if they never stop to look at him, compare themselves to him, and realize they are identical to him; in both their strengths and lacking. Freud didn’t show much love for the human race; he seemed to glut and glorify more in the lacking of man. This spawns a hateful attitude towards your fellow man, when the only moment you choose to look at humanity is when you wish to seek out perversity. I find his motives far more primitive than intellectual, you see.

It is in fact possible to be so self contained that you become a virtual social zombie. Humanity’s sole existence and elevation into civilization would not be possible without interpersonal interaction. No man is an island, but I feel Freud only seems to focus on man, as the island. His views are selfish, self-serving, xenophobic, and self-contained. I think they are more of a reflection upon his mental insecurities and social anxieties than they ever were a reflection upon society or the human condition.
(There is a reason that colleges have been slowly dropping Freud.)

Adversely, we as humanity need each other. Self-realization can only go so far. There comes a point where we have to look out of ourselves, and start practicing comparative realizations. We can not be healthy human beings, functioning in the way man was meant, and programmed to function if we remove the interpersonal link from man.

It is simply counter productive to spend your life looking within to see where you rest happily with yourself, with out ever looking out into society to see where you rest within it.

With all that said Freud did have a pretty awesome beard!