Beyond Freud (3)

Sigmund Freud "figured out" the workings of the human mind but he couldn't get his head around the Irish! Also, recently in the film The Departed Matt Damon's character said, "I don't know, being Irish, maybe it's that we are to complex to analyze?"Irish people have the highest cinema-going rate in Europe. Paddy is in his 70's and since he was 18 years old he has hand picked the films Irish people flock to see. Also a theatre director and aware of the wrong ideas people have about this role, Paddy explains how the removal of a mask is drama at its best.

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[willhain2]

@suppernoddypo2k7: Lighten up asshole.

[suppernoddypo2k7]

@willhain2 Your not Irish, your fucking American.

[willhain2]

Freud was right. Try to get in our heads and the wall goes up and the actor's mask comes down. We're a proud yet stubborn people.

[lockateard17]

no i say freud is right i would be positive that most irish think the same when it comes 2 emotions and feelings and that is that theyre ur own and no 1 elses business except ur own and the other people feelings can be directed towards ie,family, lovers, children, friends meaning that a shrink is a stranger any irish people i know would not spill their guts out 2 stranger unlike the majority of most other races and i personally think that showing 2 much emotion or feelings is a sign of weakness

[Scanlonam]

Many of Freuds ideas are highly questionable for ALL people. One criticism of Freud was a narrow cultural group. It could be an admission of just how narrow he was, if he excluded the Irish. Betty Friedan question their application to 1950's Americans.

Even with the central European Jewish Victorians, Freud used very, very poor science in his theories.

Also Freud was a hardcore Anglophile and lived in England for many years. Which probably influenced his attitudes towards the Irish.