# Sigmund Freud - [[psychoanalysis|Psychoanalysis]] > [!quote] > > Men are more moral than they think and are far more immoral than they can > imagine. -- Sigmund Freud ## Theory - The disease mindset. Symptoms are clues to help us figure out what the real problems are. - Before Freud, psychology is all about how "average human" works. - Late 1800' and 1900', Victorian Era - Freud talks about the dark side of human -- sex and aggression - Psyche - Id = It, primitive, pleasure principle, immediate gratification - Super-Ego, societal, "perfect us" - Ego, find a way to satisfy Id without compromising Super-ego - ==Medical Perspective== - what works works - Clinical Psychology ## Criticism - A lot of the ideas Freud proposed are _scientifically untestable_ - His theories do not provide testable predictions. As a result we can never falsify Freudian theory. - Note that, the community of clinical psychology, specifically [[psychoanalysis]], has developed more scientific theories around Freud.