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St. Augustine and the Quest for Self-Knowledge | Prof. Michael Foley

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Does That Help Yet?

Asmer: Freud tried to reduce all desire to some form of sexual libido. He argues that even our sinful actions and desires are a groping for the divine. Asmer says he thinks augustine would actually see things in the opposite way. "Yes to psychology, but no to bad psychology"

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