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The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford

Outsider Theory

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The Therapeutic State Is Liberation, Right?

Sally Kohn: The premise of the therapeutic state is liberation. So why would you impose some limitation on yourself, dear, your libido? She says Freudianism was trying to make sense of family in a moment of its weakening as an institution. But she argues that this kind of attenuated father has been losing authoritativeness for various reasons.Kohn: I do also think that there's just a key mistake that's continuous from certain versions of Freud through the expressions of the sexual revolution.

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