"I had a discussion with a Freudian Twit, Master. I stood my ground easely because of my knowledge of Mind, yet, I had not the desired precise notion of the scientific side of Freud's absurdities."
"That is not so difficult. Always, people wanted to understand
(human) behaviour, if possible at the level of prediction. Now,
behaviour is ONLY the 'manifestation', the result, the outcome,
of ideation, Mind. The clever scientist, then, searches in Mind
first. The dumb does not. He takes behaviour as 'the' fundamental
and banishes Mind altogether. A few dumbo's like Freud remained
concentrated on behaviour, but added a queer theory of Mind to it
so that that became 'the' fundamental cause. This, in Freud's
morphine and cocaine fuddled Mind, was sexuality. In this way he
was certain to gain the front pages (post Victorian era). Scientifically,
thus, Freud's error was to promote ONE manifestation
to the level of fundamental, thereby excluding all other manifestations like
eating, playing, art, science, friendship, thus
skipping, say, 85pseudoanalysis, oneiromantics of pre-Herodotean level."