Looking for a general Marxist view on Freud.

At first glance, to me everything relating to Freud sounds like pseudoscientific, idealist garbage … everything that Marx’s scientific socialism should be opposed to in principle. Nevertheless there was a Freudo-Marxist school that overlapped with the Frankfurt School, who thought the ideas of Freud and Marx could be married to some extent.

So,

  1. What was Freud about?
  2. Was Freud full of shit?
  3. Is Marxism compatible with psychoanalysis?
  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    essentially, yeah. it’s much more in that camp. i think it’s metaphorically a useful dialectic but little more. i want to be very clear that i don’t think i would say that freud’s psychoanalysis is dialectical. just this particular way that he tried to reason about the human psyche. i haven’t read much freud himself, but it seems to me that he was totally unable to apply these ideas to anything materially going on with society or an individual without introducing his insane personal cultural baggage from being a european male. i moreso wanted to answer your question about why marxists talk about freud.