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Jiang claims the pressure against Freud came because accused fathers were powerful Frankists in Vienna who practiced father-daughter incest as part of religious/multigenerational trauma.
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Jiang claims the pressure against Freud came because accused fathers were powerful Frankists in Vienna who practiced father-daughter incest as part of religious/multigenerational trauma.
Jiang presents Frankism as a transgressive religious movement whose taboo-breaking helps make late nineteenth-century Central and Eastern European abuse allegations historically plausible.
Jiang argues that Freud probably knew the women were telling the truth but changed his story to protect his livelihood and avoid punishment by powerful people.
Urban modernity replaces emotionally embedded village life with money, clock time, abstraction, and institutional regulation.
He argues there is some evidence that sexual trauma and abuse were real problems in late nineteenth-century Vienna, including transgressive religious sects.
Semmelweis is used as evidence that nineteenth-century Vienna punished doctors whose truths threatened powerful professional reputations.
"...understand, okay? The Sunday Franks are very powerful people, especially in Vienna. And this is part of their religion. If you do it over..."
"Okay? One of them is called Frankenism. And Frankenism rejected Jewish norms and believed they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries. Okay, remember, the..."
"...with a man named Ignat Simmelweis. Ignat Simmelweis, lived in 1840s Vienna. And he was a doctor who worked at Vienna General Hospital. And..."
"...that's what happens to you when you defy powerful people in Vienna in the 19th century. And Freud didn't want the same fate. And..."
"...and worked at the end of the 19th century, primarily in Vienna. And at this time, Europe was going through fundamental, social, cultural, economic,..."
"Let's think of food. When you're in the village, you grow your own food, and then you make the food, you eat it, and..."
"...evidence to suggest that sexual trauma and abuse was common in Vienna at this time in history, the late 19th century? And the answer..."
"Remember, the question of faith, right? How do you demonstrate your faith in God? How do you know God loves you? How do you..."
"...with a man named Ignat Simmelweis. Ignat Simmelweis lived in 1840s Vienna, and he was a doctor who worked at Vienna General Hospital. He..."
"Okay? And so he launched an investigation as to what was happening, and he spent seven months, a long, long time, trying to figure..."
"...then he presented his findings to the staff, the doctors of Vienna General Hospital, believing that they would praise him. And then promote this..."
"...that's what happens to you when you defy powerful people. In Vienna, in the 19th century. And Freud didn't want the same fate. And..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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