Tuesday, 14 Nov 2006
ive kind of had an epiphany last night. i think the reason why i love Freud so much is because of the highly subjective nature of his theories. Unfortuately, this is the same reason why current psychologists reject his theories: because they are not testable.
but fuck, they make so much sense!, who cares if theyre not testable.
and it also kind of makes me mad/sad to think that just because something is not empirically based, in our society it is automatically rejected. i am afraid that this preoccupation with objectivity is getting in the way of everything. especially if you think about society itself. society is allowing the scientists to completely reject subjectivity for the comfort zone of relying on ‘hard facts’, when imagine how different society would be if everyone were required to read freuds texts, say, in like high school. if everyone understood how everyone worked (which is basically what psychology is…why people do the things that they do, or act the way that they act), and analyzed events and happenings based on these understandings, everything would be so much smoother!
beautiful.