Mar 22, 2019
Why didn't Karl Popper accept Freud's psychological theories and believed that they are not scientific in essence?
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Why didn't Karl Popper accept Freud's psychological theories and believed that they are not scientific in essence?
Scene with Vera Farmiga and Matt Damon from The Departed - A Martin Scorsese Picture (2006)
“What Freud said about the Irish is: We’re the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis,” declares Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) in Martin Scorsese’s film The Departed. So what exactly did the father of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, mean by that, anyway? Are we Irish all crazy? Or just experts at hiding our true thoughts?
Have centuries of oppression by the British, repression by the church, suppression of our sexual urges and a thirst for the drink made us into a race of people who can have lively, jovial arguments about the weather, sports and politics without ever divulging the real issues burning in our souls, if we even admit to ourselves what they are? Or maybe we’re just a well-grounded people who would rather solve our problems on our own than pay $200 an hour for help.
Maybe Freud’s observation is such a great laugh line in the movie because the Irish – or those who hang out with us – can read their favourite stereotype about the Irish into it.
Just one problem: Freud never said it!