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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
Is Freud Falsifiable?
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Psychology has to be unfalsifiable at the levels that freud is talking about, because there's just no way to test these broad general claims about the human mind and human development. What you do have is, say, clinical trials, where you say, a, does this pill reduce depression? A double line, whatever, plasebo control, and you see whether it does. But those aren't those arent ther ason. It's psychology, but it's not a psychological theory in the sense.
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