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loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works âš4â© âšmonthsâ© ago
The content of his studies was mostly false, but the concept of it was influential and groundbreaking. He initiated the process of moving the questions of the mind from the field of philosophy to the field of science aâd medicine⊠But he didnât achieve that process himself. His psychoanalysis wasnât science yet, but philosophy on its way to become science.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works âš4â© âšmonthsâ© ago
That wasnât really Freudâs achievement though. There are many early psychologists who deserve credit for this much more than him, such as William James, Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Hermann Ebbinghaus, or (later) B. F. Skinner.
Freudâs work was mostly in the medical tradition, developed independently from the emerging psychological science of that time, and thatâs where his theories still have the largest impact.