Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - How to Catch a Monster
Aired: 2025-06-18
Duration: 03:24


=== Why Freud Was an Absolute Monster (03:24) ===

[00:00:00]  Is that why people like Freud, Adler, and Jung contributed enormous concepts to psychology?
[00:00:05]  But Adler not so much, but Freud and Jung were both myth-makers, and Freud was an absolute monster.
[00:00:11]  And I did a whole speech about this at a Night for Freedom in New York some years ago.
[00:00:16]  But yeah, Freud was an absolute monster, a cocaine addict who gave his friends cocaine and praised cocaine and was just brutal to his clients.
[00:00:25]  And his clients came to him.
[00:00:28]  There were a lot of women who came to Freud and were talking about how they had been sexually assaulted by mothers and fathers in their family.
[00:00:37]  And he started to talk about this.
[00:00:38]  He got threatened.
[00:00:39]  He had six kids at the time, I guess.
[00:00:40]  And then this is where he came up with the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex, which is...
[00:00:52]  It's that he secretly wanted to be, wants to sleep with his mother and kill his father and so on, right?
[00:00:58]  Well, if you're sexually assaulted by your mother, you are going to be enraged at your father for marrying a woman and not protecting you, marrying a woman like that, and not protecting you.
[00:01:07]  Or if the girl is sexually assaulted, raped, molested by her father, It's a wish.
[00:01:15]  It didn't really happen.
[00:01:16]  It's just a fantasy.
[00:01:17]  It's an desire.
[00:01:18]  It's a dream.
[00:01:19]  So he set back children's rights like 100 years.
[00:01:22]  And hybridarchy was one of the main reasons that led to World War I. You read my question one word off.
[00:01:30]  Oh, sorry about that.
[00:01:31]  Why are bad people much better at detecting good people than good people are at detecting good people?
[00:01:35]  I mean, I think it would be the same reason that we're still not trained to detect virtue.
[00:01:40]  I appreciate your answer to the other question as well.
[00:01:42]  We're going to go donor only in a few minutes.
[00:01:44]  So again, you know the drill.
[00:01:56]  Thank you for the tip.
[00:01:59]  I appreciate that.
[00:02:04]  Alright.
[00:02:10]  Thank you.
[00:02:13]  You have sold me nearly instantly, but we are broke, not broken, and the reason is IT fraud is sabotage.
[00:02:21]  Sorry, I don't quite follow that, but I appreciate the tip.
[00:02:26]  In some cultures, you are not respected because it's viewed as what you should do.
[00:02:29]  Asking for reciprocity is like asking for a participation trophy.
[00:02:34]  The average draft beer is about $5 at the bar.
[00:02:37]  Oh yeah, so if you drink, you can afford to support philosophy.
[00:02:40]  And if you buy a beer, At a bar, one beer, you could have supported philosophy.
[00:02:47]  So it's just a matter of being honest about your priorities.
[00:02:50]  Whatever you do is what you prioritize.
[00:02:52]  And if you prioritize getting a coffee out or having a beer, if that's what you spend money on and then you don't subscribe to philosophy, then you are valuing the coffee and the beer above philosophy.
[00:03:05]  Right?
[00:03:06]  By their fruits shall you know them.
[00:03:08]  Judge actions, not...
[00:03:13]  So if you want to know what you value in life, just look at what you spend money on and what you don't spend money on.
[00:03:19]  That's what you value.
[00:03:21]  And I know that, and you know that, and everybody knows that, right?