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Elijah Emery on Christopher Lasch and the Contemporary Left, part 1

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Haven't a Heartless World by Freud?

The new radicalism in America is a real outgrowth of the ideas talked about in American liberals in the Russian Revolution. And that seems to lead him to Freudianism, which was already there. So he's concerned with both things. Why is left reacting so strongly to this? And when they happened to his prior books, right? Yeah. Like, like, I know Foucault is so de rigor now that we assume that's always the case, but finding him in an essay in 1969 is actually kind of weird in America. That's before the Stanford Conference really blows everything out of the water.

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