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Why do non-psychologists talk so much about Freud?
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It's the only psychologist who has a name known to the bulk of laymen, so he's quoted for the sake of sounding educated. And more often than not, entirely misquoted to produce a "credible" argument.
The thing is, he wasn't even a psychologist.
Well I know for sure he was a coked up one. And if he's not a psychologist, then he was just cokehead.
That's about what I was thinking, the self-perpetuating fame. The general population just doesn't know the names of many psychologists, but they've heard of Freud and a handful of Freud's ideas.