There are people whose mothers died during childbirth, but babies literally can't take care of themselves, they need to be constantly attended to and the original moment of trauma is always the moment they are weaned. Surrogate mothers are extremely common, the fact that in the loss of the biological role the cultural form of the mother is still retained speaks even more strongly to Freud's point, that these co-ordinates that first arrange psychological life are so deeply embedded that we even unconsciously impose them even when they aren't necessary, and that we structure our societies around them.
>> The further one gets from that original source of comfort, the more complex means they employ to try and return, ceaselessly failing, always repeating the same thing over and over again. This is the origin of all language, all logic, and all of human society for Freud.
>Dubious.
This was just a quick summary of Freud's theory, I did not expect anyone to read thousands of pages of Freud but you are welcome to do so and then decide whether or not his work is "relevant". As I said, people in SciTech might not like him, but theres a very good chance that their therapists do. Freud remains one of the most cited authors in history.
>> The further one gets from that original source of comfort, the more complex means they employ to try and return, ceaselessly failing, always repeating the same thing over and over again. This is the origin of all language, all logic, and all of human society for Freud.
>Dubious.
This was just a quick summary of Freud's theory, I did not expect anyone to read thousands of pages of Freud but you are welcome to do so and then decide whether or not his work is "relevant". As I said, people in SciTech might not like him, but theres a very good chance that their therapists do. Freud remains one of the most cited authors in history.