The idea that everything is caused by internal conflicts, and if we only could resolve all the internal conflicts (which might take a few years of hard work, if you want to do it thoroughly) we would become amazing supermen (so all those years spent on therapy would still be totally worth it), originates from Freud.
It is my long-term source of amusement, that if you mention Freud of psychoanalysis in the rationalist community, you reliably get “pseudoscience”, “it’s completely debunked”, et cetera… but if you rephrase the same ideas using modern language, without mentioning the source, they become accepted rationalist wisdom.
This is basically my perspective but seems contrary to the perspective in which most problems are caused by internal blockages, right?
Yep.
The idea that everything is caused by internal conflicts, and if we only could resolve all the internal conflicts (which might take a few years of hard work, if you want to do it thoroughly) we would become amazing supermen (so all those years spent on therapy would still be totally worth it), originates from Freud.
It is my long-term source of amusement, that if you mention Freud of psychoanalysis in the rationalist community, you reliably get “pseudoscience”, “it’s completely debunked”, et cetera… but if you rephrase the same ideas using modern language, without mentioning the source, they become accepted rationalist wisdom.