Freudianism and autie’s loneliness.

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No it’s not even philosophy it’s the esoteric doctrine of a sect. with dogmas and rituals (the couch, the 50 minutes, the pretended asepsis of the transfert (anothe oxymoron), the diploma on the wall and what you find portrayed in the New Yorker’s cartoons, thousands of them because the New Yorker is dedicated to the depiction of a climate: the climate of the half learned middle class, where Freudianism and psychoanalysis are an essential element of the décor. It’s a kind of demented conformism. And it’s money, power, organization, well paid congresses, journals and what not. One can say that Freud was not this. But Freud was the one who started all this, with secret meetings to establish orthodoxy, excommunications, public relations, dynasties. He was the founder of a religion, the religion of secular middle class which didn’t find to be “in” with regular religions, which, after all were much more serious businesses and deserved more respect than psychoanalysis, even if am not religious.

Freud and Bettleheim ruined a lot of lives. Bernard Rimland rightly called their theories "pernicious," or pathologically evil.

Well, matter of fact, the world is full of mediums, exorcists, chrystal gazers, astrologers, false prophets and then there are such things like Hubbard’s scientology, telepreachers, Ben Hinns, and whatnot. Why take offence at Sigmund Freud? There is perhaps some good reason. Freud has never been investigated by judges, enjoyed full legitimacy in the established order and his followers, like the followers of Jacques Lacan in France, have had or still have a great power in the psychiatric institutions, asylums, mental hospitals. So this might be some good reason for Freud bashing while slashing Hubbard or Moon in a different way.