People have a tendency to spiral into “nihilistic psychoanalyzing.” This tends to completely occupy people’s mental frames about to how to deal with other humans, which is a huge aspect of everyone’s life. What I mean by that is when you say something they don’t want to hear they immediately try to figure out how it’s a reflection of your own psychological inadequacies, always through some pseudo-Freudian frame which sees all psychology or human nature in terms of medicalizing mental illness. The worst part of this is we’ve thrown away literally every other frame for human nature already, so we only understand others through Freudian terms.
There’s a few issues with this. Firstly, there’s no reboot mechanism for reality. There’s no appeal to “I’m angry because society is actually collapsing and we’re all going to fucking die if we don’t fix this.” It gets stuck in entirely solipsistic mental loops of “I feel this which makes me feel this.” There’s no mechanism for “shut up you idiot. You are wrong.” Freudianism has no input basis for society and views psychology as purely individual. It wants you to be sociable and accept the regime, but what if you do want that? It views opposition to the social structure as a form of mental illness but at the same time it’s very spotty with what it medicalizes. I believe degeneracy, totalitarianism and self loathing are mental illnesses, but the regime subsidizes those on a social basis so what we consider to be a mental illness is fairly arbitrary. There’s also no understanding how mental health is an extension of human life itself, driven off the structure of society. For 99% of humans in history therapy was called religion and religion worked a lot better statistically. We don’t examine this at all, boxing mental health in a personal bracket.
Secondly, Freudianism doesn’t want to fix you. I’ve done multiple types of therapy and normal therapy is terrible since there’s no mechanism to heal you. The therapist just enables your worst traits without criticism. EMDR therapy works since you have targets for certain neuroses you end with each session. I can’t recommend EMDR highly enough and it’s the only form of therapy the veteran’s association says heals PTSD. Freudianism has literally no structure to fix or heal you and views the world entirely negatively. It sees all structure or discipline as oppression. In the Jungian tradition you’re moving upwards towards the divine or individuality. Freudians can’t see the inverse of mental illness, or psychological health. The only way you get attention is to have a mental illness, so people say they have mental illnesses so others listen to them. I don’t like medicalizing the human condition. People just want to shove others into the “narcissist” or “bipolar” or “repressed” box and then stop thinking at all about the human condition. It’s also crazy when people medicalize those superior to them saying historic figures or great men are repressed, which is obviously cope.
This means they collapse into nihilistic cycles with no way to find goodness psychologically. They look for mental illnesses in others without the ability to see anything else psychologically. Also, most people really suck at psychoanalyzing. They’re stuck in the Freudian tradition of just blaming your parents or saying you’re repressed. They don’t see the human condition as holistic, stemming from all elements of your life whether your life circumstances, personality, demographics or mindset. They're not seeing the person they're dealing with as a human with a story, rather they try to shove them into a negative box so they don't have to think anymore.
The true understanding of psychology would unlock an incredible historic innovation which would fix our society and our own broken souls. However, as of now psychology is used as a mental box to avoid thinking about real life or the complexity or being a human. It’s a form of anti thinking.
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People have a tendency to spiral into “nihilistic psychoanalyzing.” This tends to completely occupy people’s mental frames about to how to deal with other humans, which is a huge aspect of everyone’s life. What I mean by that is when you say something they don’t want to hear they immediately try to figure out how it’s a reflection of your own psychological inadequacies, always through some pseudo-Freudian frame which sees all psychology or human nature in terms of medicalizing mental illness. The worst part of this is we’ve thrown away literally every other frame for human nature already, so we only understand others through Freudian terms.
There’s a few issues with this. Firstly, there’s no reboot mechanism for reality. There’s no appeal to “I’m angry because society is actually collapsing and we’re all going to fucking die if we don’t fix this.” It gets stuck in entirely solipsistic mental loops of “I feel this which makes me feel this.” There’s no mechanism for “shut up you idiot. You are wrong.” Freudianism has no input basis for society and views psychology as purely individual. It wants you to be sociable and accept the regime, but what if you do want that? It views opposition to the social structure as a form of mental illness but at the same time it’s very spotty with what it medicalizes. I believe degeneracy, totalitarianism and self loathing are mental illnesses, but the regime subsidizes those on a social basis so what we consider to be a mental illness is fairly arbitrary. There’s also no understanding how mental health is an extension of human life itself, driven off the structure of society. For 99% of humans in history therapy was called religion and religion worked a lot better statistically. We don’t examine this at all, boxing mental health in a personal bracket.
Secondly, Freudianism doesn’t want to fix you. I’ve done multiple types of therapy and normal therapy is terrible since there’s no mechanism to heal you. The therapist just enables your worst traits without criticism. EMDR therapy works since you have targets for certain neuroses you end with each session. I can’t recommend EMDR highly enough and it’s the only form of therapy the veteran’s association says heals PTSD. Freudianism has literally no structure to fix or heal you and views the world entirely negatively. It sees all structure or discipline as oppression. In the Jungian tradition you’re moving upwards towards the divine or individuality. Freudians can’t see the inverse of mental illness, or psychological health. The only way you get attention is to have a mental illness, so people say they have mental illnesses so others listen to them. I don’t like medicalizing the human condition. People just want to shove others into the “narcissist” or “bipolar” or “repressed” box and then stop thinking at all about the human condition. It’s also crazy when people medicalize those superior to them saying historic figures or great men are repressed, which is obviously cope.
This means they collapse into nihilistic cycles with no way to find goodness psychologically. They look for mental illnesses in others without the ability to see anything else psychologically. Also, most people really suck at psychoanalyzing. They’re stuck in the Freudian tradition of just blaming your parents or saying you’re repressed. They don’t see the human condition as holistic, stemming from all elements of your life whether your life circumstances, personality, demographics or mindset. They're not seeing the person they're dealing with as a human with a story, rather they try to shove them into a negative box so they don't have to think anymore.
The true understanding of psychology would unlock an incredible historic innovation which would fix our society and our own broken souls. However, as of now psychology is used as a mental box to avoid thinking about real life or the complexity or being a human. It’s a form of anti thinking.
Sincerely, Rudyard William Lynch
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