Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
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Early Development Plays an Important Role in Adult Personality
Froyd was one of the first people to point out that early development plays an important role in adult personality. For freud, sexual meant broadly, any source of pleasure. So once you resolve poty training, you realize that bodily sure can be had. And so what freud believed is that when you hit school age, all of a sudden the child realizes they can't be machines and play by some sort of rule. To him, that was just a kind of mind shutting down.
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