#marksolms — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/freud-psychoanalysis-theories-brain-science/687957/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR8dogJMMXp6vZXpySsUqqIs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sh

Freud's place in the history of psychology strikes me as not unlike that of Kepler in the history of astronomy; many beliefs these pioneers considered foundational are in fact false, yet to deny the importance of these men in the development of science is perverse.

>>...we need to go back to Freud’s true aim: to treat the soul, not by ministering to the brain, as modern biological psychiatry does, but “by accepting that the ‘soul’—construed as the experiencing, active, living ‘I’—is a part of nature.” <<

I am not well informed enough to comment on the therapeutic value of psychoanalysis. In fact, I am more interested in Freudian theory as a contribution to a naturalistic but nonreductive understanding of the mind.

With regard to the paragraph mentioning Karl Popper's condemnation of psychoanalysis as a "pseudoscience", we should note that few philosophers of science today accept Popper's claim that "falsifiability" provides a criterion that we can apply to separate the scientific from the pseudoscientific. We need to end the simplistic reliance on this supposed criterion and accept instead the complexity and difficulty of characterizing scientific inquiry and knowledge.

#Psychoanalysis #Freud #MarkSolms #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Science #DemarcationProblem #KarlPopper

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/freud-psychoanalysis-theories-brain-science/687957/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR8dogJMMXp6vZXpySsUqqIs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sh

Freud's place in the history of psychology strikes me as not unlike that of Kepler in the history of astronomy; many beliefs these pioneers considered foundational are in fact false, yet to deny the importance of these men in the development of science is perverse.

>>...we need to go back to Freud’s true aim: to treat the soul, not by ministering to the brain, as modern biological psychiatry does, but “by accepting that the ‘soul’—construed as the experiencing, active, living ‘I’—is a part of nature.” <<

I am not well informed enough to comment on the therapeutic value of psychoanalysis. In fact, I am more interested in Freudian theory as a contribution to a naturalistic but nonreductive understanding of the mind.

With regard to the paragraph mentioning Karl Popper's condemnation of psychoanalysis as a "pseudoscience", we should note that few philosophers of science today accept Popper's claim that "falsifiability" provides a criterion that we can apply to separate the scientific from the pseudoscientific. We need to end the simplistic reliance on this supposed criterion and accept instead the complexity and difficulty of characterizing scientific inquiry and knowledge.

#Psychoanalysis #Freud #MarkSolms #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Science #DemarcationProblem #KarlPopper

This book on Freud sounds as if it might be worth reading.

I'm inclined to think of Freud and Marx as standing in the same relation to the human sciences as Boyle and Kepler do to the natural; important pioneers, whose path breaking insights were also tangled up in ideas that have been rightly discarded.

I'm aware that the idea of a science of the human is controversial; I feel that Mastodon is not the best place to engage in this controversy.

Image -- Sigmund Freud -- c.1921 -- Max Halberstadt -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/the-only-cure-by-mark-solms-review-a-bold-attempt-to-rehabilitate-freud?CMP=share_btn_url

#SigmundFreud #TheOnlyCure #MarkSolms #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Science #HistoryOfScience #HumanSciences

This book on Freud sounds as if it might be worth reading.

I'm inclined to think of Freud and Marx as standing in the same relation to the human sciences as Boyle and Kepler do to the natural; important pioneers, whose path breaking insights were also tangled up in ideas that have been rightly discarded.

I'm aware that the idea of a science of the human is controversial; I feel that Mastodon is not the best place to engage in this controversy.

Image -- Sigmund Freud -- c.1921 -- Max Halberstadt -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/the-only-cure-by-mark-solms-review-a-bold-attempt-to-rehabilitate-freud?CMP=share_btn_url

#SigmundFreud #TheOnlyCure #MarkSolms #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Science #HistoryOfScience #HumanSciences

#Consciousness and The #FreeEnergy Principle: An essay review of #MarkSolms #book "The Hidden Spring"

https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Consciousness-and-The-Free-Consciousness_Consciousness--Enlightenment-250322-342.html

#Consciousness and The #FreeEnergy Principle: An essay review of #MarkSolms #book "The Hidden Spring"

https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Consciousness-and-The-Free-Consciousness_Consciousness--Enlightenment-250322-342.html

Fascinating conversation by Yuval Harari, Mark Solms and Gita Wirjawan about consciousness, compassion, democracy, artificial intelligence, artificial emotions, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8h7zojuM5Q

#YuvalHarari #MarkSolms #GitaWirjawan #Conciousness #AI #Democracy #History #Endgame

Fascinating conversation by Yuval Harari, Mark Solms and Gita Wirjawan about consciousness, compassion, democracy, artificial intelligence, artificial emotions, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8h7zojuM5Q

#YuvalHarari #MarkSolms #GitaWirjawan #Conciousness #AI #Democracy #History #Endgame