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.
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud’s world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text “Civilization and its Discontents.” If society has made so much progress, why are human beings perpetually dissatisfied? Can religion help us or is it a big part of the problem? What’s really going on when you piss on a fire to put it out? Also: how seriously should we take Freud today given some of his wackier ideas? And is he a psychologist, a philosopher, or something else entirely?
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