if freud is still alive, what do you think are the major changes he would make to his theory?
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None, and not because they were perfect.
Freud revised his own work four times throu his life, adding lenght footnotes that openly contradicted and criticized his early ideas. In fact all his work in the 1930 is sort of a testament, a revision pointing to further developments that other psychoanalysts from new generation should lead on.
And so it happened: “Freud’s theory” is not Freud’s, it is Psychoanalysis and it is, as it always was even when he was alive, a construction of many hands, many practioners - each psychoanalysis, each psychoanalytical treatment, conducted almost anonimously by any psychoanalyst, brings new knowledge to Psychoanalysis as a theory, even those treatments that fail and do not produce new psychoanalysts from their psychoanalysands.
Even people that latter denied have taken part on Psychoanalysis, as Joseph Breuer, and who came to be literally demented, as Wilhel Fliess, were always praised by Freud as crucial contributors (Fliess was a paraphrenic, but before aknowledging that he served as Freud’s psychoanalyst, involuntarely, a post without which Freud would not have writen The Interpretation of Dreams).
Psychoanalysis continued to develop after Freud - and even if its most important development was a “return to Freud and to the Freudian Letter, permanently”, as Jacques Lacan proposed, it is not a stagnation in Freud, but a return to him that leads us to go beyond him, like in the gravitational movement of a comet around a start (or of the Voyager gaining momentum throu the gravity of Jupiter and Saturn).
Psychoanalysis rellies on Freud, yes, but could never be reduced to him, as he himself always, humbly, reminded.