One of Freud's quote is" America is a big mistake". It's on the quote link: http://quotes4all.net/quotations/sigmund%20freud/quote_1230.html
Why is it so? what does he mean by that?
2006-12-15 06:35:25 · 4 answers · asked by ff9_terra 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
“America is a mistake; a gigantic mistake, it is true, but nonetheless a mistake,”
Freud was a product of turn of the century Europe; it is widely known that he hated his time in America in 1909. He did not like the food and considered Americans informal, he thought America
was well the wild west and all that. Nor did he like American political situation after WWI.
It is a bit more complicated but Freud was a man with a very dark view of mankind. We Americans ate to well, acted as if we were aloof to the world. He lived until 1939 and was sick most of his later years and he blamed that on American food.
He must have been also bitter that his theories on psychology took off in America while they were never really taken to heart in mainland Europe.
2006-12-15 08:02:20 · answer #1 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. this is not about faith. it really is about Freud's opinion of religion. For Freud, faith is purely an phantasm, pleasing guy's wistful questioning. His quote potential no longer some thing to me.
2016-10-18 08:19:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freud was extremely negative about the United States. He felt that, as a country, the U.S. lacked "taste and culture" (especially compared to Vienna, where he lived). So, he probably was just expressing his anti-American sentiment.
2006-12-15 08:07:51 · answer #3 · answered by senlin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
exactly what he says, america is an @$$, always ahs been, always will be
2006-12-15 08:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋