Following up on Freudian Psychology is Horsesh*t - Lost Wanderer, I ran across this Discover Magazine article, The Borderline Whack-Jobs Who Pioneered Psychoanalysis by Dean Christopher, who reviewed the book, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari.
As I might have expected, considering what a charlatan Freud was, many of Freud’s followers were also fairly unusual. Felix Salten, who wrote Bambi, also wrote pornography. Otto Weininger recommended completely giving up sex for all purposes, and then shortly afterwards killed himself. Some followers believed that masturbation caused madness, while others believed it cured it. One got the label the “Pied Piper of carnality.” Another had to flee his homeland partly as a result of repeated accusations of child molestation, and still another died in jail. We learn from these deep thinkers that blacks are inherently uncivilizable, syphilis is the co-traveler of Christianity, women are destined for hysteria, Jews are disproportionately degenerate, and the solution for the Jew’s problem was to practice gymnastics.
In the end, Freudianism serves as a reminder of how insane ideas can foster a cult of fashionable nonsense given the right circumstances.
Tags: Delusions, Freud, Freudianism, Mental Health