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The Superego Commands en Joy

Froyd is living in a much more, i don't know, repressed, a repressive time. And i think it's because of just simply the development of capital at the time when he was writing. I don't think he had yet experienced this massive impar ative to enjoy that comes with the later development of capitalism. The imperative to enjoy only really gets going fully in the 19 sixties. It's then lecon in seminar 20, which is 19 72, 73, that he then develops his famous formulation of super ego as, there's only one thing that compels us to enjoy, and that's the super ego, right? Like that. But so beginning l

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