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Old Apr 12, 2013, 09:55 PM
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And, from the link above, a reasonable modern critique of the theory for you:

  • Evaluation of Freud's psychosexual development theory

    Four points:
  • difficult to test, but the evidence that has been gathered is not favourable
  • the crucial events (e.g., how the libido is used) are unobservable, and there are no good means to measure them
  • there is an awfully long time between the occurence of the causal stimulus and its presumed effect; relationships between early events and later traits tend to be weak and inconsistent
  • this theory of development was conceived without studying children; rather, it was developed from patients' recollections, dreams and free associations

Plus, since you MIGHT identify as homosexual and Freud does not have a good non-pathologizing explanation for that kind of attraction, YOU PERSONALLY should not look to his ideas as a source of truth regardless of the stuff about the non-testability of his ideas.

I hope it helps and hope that you will get good ideas in responses from people who report their own genuine experiences rather than engage in wild speculations.

Last edited by hamster-bamster; Apr 12, 2013 at 10:24 PM.