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The pet business is a multi-million-dollar enterprise, and some animal breeders are also making a lot of money. Veterinarians charge thousands of dollars to treat animals. Everything is about profits and ownership in this society. Natives americans domesticated animals, but they never called them pets; they had great respect for animals. In New York, they are going to pass a law to eliminate horse carriages because they are killing them
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckz7x9g1v4dvo
https://centerofthewest.org/2025/08/11/the-spiritual-and-cultural-legacy-of-horses-in-native-american-history/Let me tell you something, I do not give a damm about Sigmund Freud and his pseudoscience, I only believe and support scientific medicine, especially Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience
https://shop.elsevier.com/books/neuroanatomia/crossman/978-84-1382-915-9
” The Minna Bernays Controversy”
So what? Are we shocked prudes now about adultery and affairs? This is all of no importance. “Ooh dear, how awwwful.”
It is part of his biography He was also a cocaine addict, and that is part of his biography
Sigmund Freud was not a Zionist in the political sense, though he maintained a strong secular Jewish identity and expressed a nuanced, sceptical sympathy toward Jewish cultural and educational initiatives.
Key Aspects of Freud’s Stance
• Scepticism Toward a Jewish State: In a 1930 letter declining a request to publicly endorse Keren HaYesod (the Palestine Foundation Fund) and support a sovereign Jewish state, Freud stated he doubted Palestine could ever become a viable Jewish state and worried that Christian and Islamic worlds would reject Jewish guardianship over holy places.
• Opposition to Political Nationalism: He felt that establishing a nation-state in Palestine was bound to provoke deep Arab distrust and criticised what he saw as “baseless fanaticism” or misdirected piety surrounding the Western Wall. He suggested a less historically and politically burdened territory might have been a more practical choice for a homeland.
• Support for Cultural and Intellectual Life: While he rejected political Zionism and statehood, Freud did feel pride in and support for Jewish cultural achievements, such as the growth of settlements and the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, serving as a trustee for the institution.
• Contact with Theodor Herzl: Freud knew of the political Zionist leader Theodor Herzl (whom he lived near in Vienna) and famously sent him a copy of The Interpretation of Dreams in 1902, addressing him with respect as a “poet and fighter for our people’s human rights,” though Freud himself did not join or lead the Zionist movement.Sigmund Freud is widely rumoured to have had an extramarital affair with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, though historians remain divided on the matter.
The Minna Bernays Controversy
• Who she was: Minna Bernays was the younger sister of Freud’s wife, Martha Bernays. She moved into the Freud family household in Vienna in 1896 and lived with them for decades, eventually accompanying them to London.
• The Swiss Hotel Register (1898): In 2006, German sociologist Franz Maciejewski uncovered a hotel logbook entry from a trip to Switzerland on August 13, 1898, where Freud registered himself and Minna as Dr Sigm. Freud and his wife in a double room with a single bed.
• Carl Jung’s Claim: Psychoanalyst Carl Jung later claimed that Minna confessed to him in 1907 that she was in love with Freud and had an intimate relationship with him. Freud loyalists dismissed Jung’s claim as bitter retaliation after Freud broke ties with him.
• Pregnancy Rumours: British historian Peter Swales further alleged that Minna became pregnant by Freud in 1900 and had an abortion, though this claim lacks definitive proof.Historians’ Split
• The Sceptics: Early official biographers, such as Ernest Jones and later biographer Peter Gay (who initially denied it), maintained that Freud’s personal life was strictly conventional and that his relationship with Minna was purely intellectual.
• The Believers: Following the discovery of the 1898 Swiss hotel registry and further archival research, many scholars (including Peter Gay later on) acknowledged that the evidence makes a physical affair very possible.He was preoccupied with sex, presumably because of his own problems in that area. His own wife called psychoanalysis “a form of pornography.” He saw everything an infant did as a source of sexual pleasure, from sucking milk to excreting. He was obsessed with masturbation and believed it was the cause of most mental illness. He developed a succession of questionable concepts like virginal anxiety, penis envy, and the Oedipus complex. He decided each hysterical symptom was a depiction of a sexual fantasy; he told one virginal patient that her cough was caused by her unconscious desire to suck her father’s penis.
At one point, he was convinced that sexual molestation in childhood was the cause of adult psychoneuroses. He believed everything patients told him, and even made things up for them and interpreted their dreams as distorted evidence of actual events. He failed to distinguish their fantasies from his own, even believing they had telepathically transmitted their thoughts to him. He thought his neurotic patients had repressed their memories of abuse, which he tried to bring to light. At first he thought nursemaids and governesses were the abusers, then he came to believe fathers were the abusers. Eventually he realised some of the stories about fathers were too outlandish to be real, so he switched gears. He decided patients were merely fantasising about sex with fathers because of an Oedipal repressed yearning for paternal incest, or because they were trying to cover up the auto-erotic activities of early childhood sexuality. Some of the fantasies were bizarre, like an account of female circumcision where the little girl was forced to eat her own labia after it was excised. This prefigured the repressed memory witch-hunt of the 20th century, with its many false accusations of child molestations and Satanic ritual abuses. At one point he entertained the possibility that he had forced daydreams of molestation upon his patients, but then quickly rejected the idea.
When he thought he could get away with it, he would align details of a case history to support his current theory. He “awarded himself a license to invent, suppress, alter, and rearrange facts in the interest of enhanced self-portraiture and theoretical vindication.”
The concepts shown in this article are closer to scientific materialism, socialism, and neuroanatomy, which consider that there is a connection between the brain and the function of the human body, affected by external reality, in opposition to the pro-capitalist and idealist conception of Freud and Jacques Lacan. The writer sees a connection between capitalism and the influence of this economic system in the minds and brains of humans, and that is totally correct; regarding sex, it is totally different from Freud’s sexual conception. Moreover, his wife said that he was a pervert. The concept of the death instinct is in opposition to human physiology and homeostasis and the negative feedback of the human body
Freud and Marx: do they mix?
Besides the Frankfurt School, Franz Fanon tried to mix Marx and Freud.
He tried to explain colonialism and racism by applying Freudian concepts; the racialist theory has been proven to be wrong, and African colonialism did not take place because they were blacks. The African ruling class is exploiting the African workers
Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
This is my main point: the left that calls itself Marxist is trying to combine Lacan and Marxism, which they are calling the Lacanian left. It’s the same situation as the Frankfurt School, which also tried to combine Freud and Marx
Richard Wolf published a video where he is indicating that the solution to the problem is the large emigration of young workers, but the nationalists do not see that solution, young workers will contribute to the state coffers through their employers, and they are not going to collect retirement for a long period of time. The Chinese working class is getting old, like the American, Japanese and European working class. Mexican workers have very large families, and most of them are young
Freud was a medical doctor, and he should have known that the death instinct is against human physiology and against homeostasis.
The human body is always operating in negative feedback and will try to balance itself, and the immune system protects humans against death; sometimes the immune system can kill a patient, as in the case of septic shock, when the immune system overreacts to an infection.
Probably he never worked in a trauma department.
The case of Jacques Lacan is even worse than Freud, reframed the death drive not as a biological urge to die, but as an “undead” force of symbolic excess—an endless, repetitive loop seen in addictions and human obsessions.
It has been argued hundreds of times that Marxism and Freudianism are not compatible. Some famous intellectuals from the School of Frankfurt tried to do that, and they failed. It is like beating a dead horse, and now some new gurus are trying to revive Freud, and it is not working either
