What do you think of Freud's view of feminism?

Question

“We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth” -Freud

Who said I read anything-can't I just use personal opinion like everyone else? lol

Answer 1

To quote Wittgenstein:

"Wisdom is something I never would expect from Freud. Cleverness, certainly; but not wisdom."

TERA

There has been no scientific validation of inkblot tests.

Freud wasn't "right" about much of anything, but he transformed the way we think about the mind, the language we use in discussing it. He gave us a new language, but he made very few "discoveries".

But you are quite right that someone who is terribly wrong about some things can be quite insightful about others.

To the TROLL stevestevens

Rousseau said no such thing in Emile and certainly could not have said that since "feministe" entered the French in 1874, long after Rousseau's death. (in the mid-18th century, "feminisme" meant "the state of being feminine"

CEASAR'S WIFE

Freud hasn't the excuse of being a man of his time. he translated into German the early feminist essay (co-authored by a man) Mill and Taylor's "On the Subjection of Women", but in his own remarks often ignored their arguments.

Answer 2

I have not read Freud's views on feminism. However one regards Freud he was a revolutionary thinker of his day as were his contemporaries in the field of human thought and emotion. I do believe that he did not believe women should be held to their subservient roles of that day. His own daughter became a psychiatrist and a leader in the field her father pioneered. I think that says something about her father.

Answer 3

Freud is talking about ONLY those feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Gender equality does not mean the two sexes are/should be completely equal in position and worth. Gender equality means equal treatment of both genders in areas where "gender" has no role to play. For example, if the duties and responsibilities of a job are the same, there should be no un-equality in pay or perks based on the gender of the worker. Many feminists are against this as well, that’s why it is a joke if a male ask for something similar to maternity leave or if a firm deny maternity leave to a pregnant woman.

Hence I agree with Freud. In my opinion majority of the feminists and their propaganda are aimed at special treatment of women. They are against equality in position, worth or treatment.

Answer 4

I honestly don't have anything nice to say about Freud. He was a coke head and a misogynist and I immediately discount anything that he has said.

Answer 5

He really was a controversial character in many ways (like his ideas about "feminism": (he believed that young girls were supposed to have "penis envy"), and boys were supposed to go through a stage where they wanted their mothers "sexually" (and supposedly wished their fathers dead because of it) ..are so bizarre and ridiculous that it's easy to want to reject ALL of his ideas. However, some of his psychological theories contributed much to the understanding of psychology as we know it today! My personal favorites are his theories on conscience development, and the functions of the conscious and sub-conscious minds, and the role that the subconscious plays in our dreams.

His ideas about some childhood conflicts, fixations, and dream imagery (to name a few) are things that most all of us reject- even mainstream modern psychologists. Yet you will still see psychoanalysis being used (which he was the "father" of), and we still find usefulness in some of the psychological tests (like the inkblot tests) that were derived from his theories on human unconscious motivation.

Surprising, really, that one man could be so right about some things and so wrong about others! What a paradox! Such is a great example, I suppose, of the complexity of human beings.

Answer 6

Freud is not used for any references nowadays.

Answer 7

i see this quote regularly, but i've never been able to find it in freud's writings.

freud had some very strange ideas about women (and about men too) but he was certainly a champion of education for girls and for reproductive freedom for adult women long before these ideas became acceptable in american society.

perhaps you would prefer a thinker who said nice things about women but kept them ignorant and tied to their reproductive cycle.

Answer 8

He was a man who lived in the past. He would say that, wouldn't he?

Answer 9

There is no doubt that he was a genius in his field

Answer 10

He sounds like a wise man, only you're attributing that quote to him when it was really said by Rousseau in his book "Emile." If you read something besides feminist "literature," you'd actually know that.