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Don't underestimate the impact Freud had.. Even though he is now often seen as a pseudo-scientic Quacksalber, he opened up a world with psychoanalysis. He was an immense popularizer of clinical psychology, the subconscious mind (!) and mental illnesses. He really showed that we humans are driven be desires more than anything else.

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The lumping is problematic because it's putting him on a level with the others who (a) discovered; things that were (b) true. The fact that he popularized concepts that had been thoroughly investigated by others (e.g. Nietzsche) with accounts were leaps and bounds ahead of the evidence does not put him at the same tier of the pantheon as those others.

Eat more Freud, it makes you Jung.

You are right about Freud. Still, we now know that our mind has surprisingly little control of our behavior. And I think that counts as fourth narcissistic injury. There doesn‘t need to be one “genius“ to which we associate such an insight.

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