“I have found little that is ‘good’ about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash.”
-Sigmund Freud
Now this doesn’t necessarily invalidate any system that Freud came up with. However, when you take into consideration that the system he invented, psychoanalysis, has as one of its primary goals to treat psychological and emotional illness, you have to ask yourself if a person who thought that most people are trash really had other people’s best interests at heart as he developed his system.
First part reminds me of something Trevor said – the sinfulness of man is a most empirically verifiable hypothesis. But, trash – no. Man, made in God’s image, is not trash. Perhaps that’s the difference between a psychoanalyst and a missionary.
Agree.
Man is infinitely valuable, having been made in God’s image and likeness, but man is dreadfully fallen, having been born in sin.