Saw an open-carry shitbird at the grocery store today.

[Abolishinist]

79. Freud? Then you belive that women add nothing of their own?

Do tell! No really, do tell!

Freud also had controversial views on women, believing that their lives were dominated by sexual reproductive functions. He even wrote, in 1925’s ‘The Psychical Consequences of the Anatomic Distinction Between the Sexes’ that ‘women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own’. To Freud, women were simply men without penises (Cohler & Galatzer-Levy, 2008), so naturally he introduced a stage of ‘penis envy’ – where a woman realises she does not possess a penis, and experiences an envy of the male, which accounted for much of female behaviour. Freud claimed that the only way they could overcome this penis envy was to have a child of their own – even going as far as to suggest they wanted a male child, in their efforts to gain a penis.

Why have most of Freud's theories been rejected?

The major reason why Sigmund Freud's approaches are no longer popular among academics and mental health professionals is that most of them are not supported by empirical data. In other words, they are not evidence-based. To be more precise, Freud formulated his approaches in a way that can not be empirically tested.