Freudian rule

who says it has to be a mom thing? people just use the societal roles they recognize because that's how our brains work, easier to latch onto something familiar as reference than to ruminate on stuff and come up with a separate concept.

There's a lot of overlap between "mommy" stuff and nurse/maid stuff, all (ideally) calm and pampering.

Well, he was absolutely a coke-fiend that just made up a bunch of nonsense that was basically all incorrect. It's easy to call him a fraud now in hindsight, but it's important to remember that one of the things he made up was the idea that we should treat mental problems like illnesses that could be treated. That's still an incredibly valuable idea that still isn't being taken seriously enough. I'm willing to give the guy a break for being wrong when he was making up the entire idea of psychology from nothing. That was still useful, even if we have had to move on from everything he thought about psychology.

While I understand his ideas are bad. Fraud is hard to say (atleast for me as someone who only knows Freud passingly). Like if he believed his own ideas, I wouldn't call him a fraud, just bad

His ideas were extremely misogynistic and used as “scientific” excuses to oppress women and people with disabilities for much of the 20th century