The reason why philosopher's like Freud captivated us is because it seemed like they were on the verge of explaining everything to us - what makes us tick - how we can feel better ...
In the words of his followers, "The unconscious is terribly threatening," says Dr. Glen O. Gabbard, professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. "It suggests we are moved by forces we cannot see or control, and this is a severe wound to our narcissism."
If this is the legacy he left behind it is truly an enormous contribution to society - to know that we are motivated by something we cannot see or control in our present state. His solution was to talk about whatever was bothering us with a sympathetic professional, but we can see where decades of expensive therapy has brought us.
In the words of Kabbalist Michael Laitman:
"It is no wonder that today philosophy for the past several decades, if not more, is in the periphery of human engagement and no one really takes it seriously, but only to philosophize, and see what else we can fantasize out of our whim about our life. We can see that if previously philosophers were connected to science, studying mathematics, physics and philosophy together. Even a PhD – a PhD is a doctor of philosophy; the "Ph" is from the word philosophy. This is because Philosophy seemingly comprises all the sciences.
Afterwards, because technology evolved and human experience became more technological practical, philosophy didn’t come through in experimentation. Gradually, it was cleaned up and moved out of the way, because humanity sees that only according to the principle of ‘the judge has only what his eyes see’, can you progress in life.
Therefore all of the sciences and the materialistic psychology, everything that we can see through experimentation and according to experiments, moving forward according to measurements, this is what we have and that is what we respect. Everything that is abstract has caused a lot of trouble in our past experiences, out of fantasies that we were trying to realize and failed bitterly, so all these things lose their value with each passing day. Philosophy today is not what it was before, especially in the time of Rambam, the era in which it thrived."
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