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Jesse Hilson
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Freud’s dream interpretations, especially when based upon punning and word games, seem far-fetched. I’m more impressed with what I can make out of his comments mapping out the mechanisms and automatisms of the unconscious than when he provides examples. Which would seem to invert science.
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Jesse Hilson
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Moving through this. It’s “very interestink” (said in a German psychoanalyst’s accent). Some of Freud’s explanations are really reaching and too reliant upon far fetched wordplay. In other sections it’s very precise, impressively so since he’s talking about the murky inner recesses.
— Mar 05, 2026 08:38PM
Jesse Hilson
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Dense, tricky. Freud’s methods of arguing for certain dream interpretations seem sometimes rather specious. On more than one occasion it comes across as a stubborn point of intellectual pride, how he masters his patients with explanations.
— Mar 02, 2026 03:21PM
