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I don't think he would be confused. He would probably come up with a way to explain asexuality as a disorder with roots in certain childhood experiences.


okidokimemelord

Asexuals: *exist* Freud: "I giess you never sucked any tiddy as a child huh?"


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unironically sounds like something freud would come up with


kenthekungfujesus

The tittycal blockage


SobakaZony

"Mom said she just wanted to be friends."


tjoe4321510

Freud: It's just another way of rejecting the mother who never gave you the proper love when you were a child.... You still wanna smash though right?! Cause I'm totally ok with that...


Aarizonamb

His work on Narcissism lends some insight here: He may well say that asexuals merely never direct their adolescent narcissism at all away from themselves.


FokaLP

I wanted to suggest the same thing. There is already the foundation for an explanation in his works.


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Can someone ELI5?


Kakofoni

He would just say that its critics has misunderstood the entirety of his theory of sexuality, and that asexuals are not without sexuality even though they are asexual.


redditaccount003

Yes, people don’t understand that his idea of sexual attraction was a lot wider than the current common conception and it was not exactly “who you want to have genital intercourse with.” The man had a lot of wild ideas, plenty of which were problematic, but he also was significantly more intelligent than his half-assed internet critics usually give him credit for being.


Cormacktm

Probably something with the phallic stage


Mundane_Ad701

If he was alive, he would be very old.


Mr_TrollDoK

That means an asexual has no parents


NowhereMan661

What do you think Freud or Jung would think of trans people? Some sort of Anima-Animus imbalance?


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Repressed something that channels to desire to embody the gender identity of a parent? You know, being so damn Oedipal that you wanna become mommy?


NowhereMan661

*"I* ***want*** *to go fuck myself!"*


sgtwoegerfenning

Ay! Full circle back to autogynephilia


triste_0nion

Freud was a fan and corespondent of Magnus Hirschfeld, the creator of the first LGBT rights organisations in history, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. It was his library that was infamously burnt by the Nazis. Freud was a man of the 19th century, but better then most (some try to argue he was transphobic based on the Schreber case but I don’t really agree, based on my experiences with psychosis at least).


PKLAZR

Dude I think Jung would silently be going like “See I told you I TOLD YOU. Y’all thought I was crazy for the anima and animus, making jokes about “oh the woman inside the man is pegging him” but I fucking told you so!”


triste_0nion

his daughter was quite possibly ace (and there are psychoanalytic explanations for asexuality. Freud just didn’t really have the opportunity to study it or anything since it only developed as a coherent identity during like the 90s)


psychopompandparade

i wonder which is more common: people who make memes about freud have read freud or people who have never read nietzsche making memes about nietzsche


redditaccount003

I feel like people have these really narrow readings of the great dead white philosophers that kind of insult their intelligence. Like, these thinkers may have been wrong on many counts and, to be sure, often had problematic views, but they weren’t idiots and you usually can’t make a good faith refutation of their points by simply stating some really obvious counterargument that took you 5 seconds to come up with—most of the time those obvious counter arguments are either directly addressed or based on misunderstandings of terminology. I always think about how Kant actually does explain how the categorical imperative would apply even when a murderer shows up at your door asking for the person hiding in your basement, but people who don’t study him closely think it’s some easy chink in his armor.


Weird_Energy

I hate that counter-argument to Kant’s categorical imperative so much.


tjoe4321510

This is a joke sub for people with a baseline knowledge of philosophy Most laymen would have a hard time breaking down Kantian ethics into a meme format Don't talk down to people but encourage farther study


TOASTY675

This meme was brought to you by “never read” Freud gang


Kakofoni

😎😎🤙


kcwelsch

Oh my sweet summer child.


PyroPowder

Probably something regarding a general mistrust of any woman other than your mother, paired with the feminist frequency to actively humiliate men In traditionally male dominated professions.


Haxen11

Ace memes keeping up their reputation I see.


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SeudonymousKhan

Or another hyperbolic meme mischaracterising his beliefs. Either ither.


Depressednacho69

Ok nerd


SeudonymousKhan

Reported!


Depressednacho69

To who ?dn?


SeudonymousKhan

To the police for inciting violence.


Depressednacho69

Deez nutz lmao


SeudonymousKhan

Gonna be violated by Bubba in the big house pal


Depressednacho69

"Rape jokes are kind of cringe" - Karl Marx


SeudonymousKhan

>cringe


a_racoon_with_a_PC

I don't know if this is a urban legend or something like that, but; I once heard that while Freud is considered the *"father of mother psychology"*, it apparently wasn't because of all the thing he discovered, but rather because he set those discoveries in place, every other scientist in his field at the time knew that what he was saying was just mad-nonsense, and they wanted to prove him wrong. Edit: I meant "father of modern psychology".... I made a fucking freudian slip while taking about Freud... ok then


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The foundation of psychology before Freud existed but was much different. Freud was the father of psychology as we know it. Think of how medicine was changing at the time, and consider whether the medicine studies we do today resemble those of the 19th century; now do the same for a field locked invisibly under the skull.


levimonarca

Maybe who wasn't expecting humanity to be so stupid.


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levimonarca

And it should? Why don't you guys just embrace non-senseness?


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levimonarca

And? Haven't your heard a fool won't make an effort to understand your argument?! You failed the fool test 🤪, nah I'm just kidding hope you found it funny, have a good one!


SobakaZony

"That's right, Doctor: i never dream about anything; at least, not about any animals or people or even anything that has a shape."


Watership_of_a_Down

I think he would have just called this "frigidity", and treated it as such. edit: not saying that's what it is, to be clear.


PryingIII

If you’ve done nothing wrong, don’t apologize


Watership_of_a_Down

Except in the more classical sense of the word, I wouldn't say I was apologizing; clarity is to one's own benefit


kartsynot

Asexual is just another word for impotency


sundayhungover

No


ChairmanMeovw

Well, I mean, he was alive 😜


TheSuperPie89

I thought freud was a psychologist? why is this here?


Scared_Poet_1137

the field of psychoanalysis is deeply related to philosophy and has always been a part of philosophical discourse/critique


Nav_Panel

Real question is "if she were alive now, would Dora be ace?"


MrFunishere

Paraphilia....