Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an Austrian “physician” who founded the psychoanalytic view of psychology, lacked credibility and support both during his time, and after. Some argue that he played an important role in the history of psychology, bringing science into…the Sciences. But, his ideas were pseudoscience at best. He’s famous for the same reason that I read books by Toni Morrison: Sex sells. It doesn’t even have to be pretty.
There’s the Id, Ego, and Superego: a constant struggle between drives and the influence of society, the Oedipal and Electra complexes: children want to have sex with their parents, and the idea that sexual desire is what motives all of our actions in one way or another. Not all that legitimate.
But then, your completely innocuous google search of “God” + “fags” reveals the website Godhatesfags.com, a site owned and operated by the Westboro Baptist Church, headed by Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kansas, and you start to wonder. You read on to discover that their group leads daily protests in Topeka (supposedly six per day, and fifteen on Sundays, “Lord Willing’), and then you discover a link to their other website GodhatesAmerica.com (because they have fags there, of course). Suddenly, Freud ceases to be the “peepee doctor” and his contributions to science climb to the level of the Jarvik heart or the lamb-skin condom. Maybe that’s why people get so horny in church.
What I hate: Fags
What I love: God
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