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#274 - Donald Robertson - Stoicism: How To Think Like A Roman Emperor

Modern Wisdom

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Freud's Theology of Action

Freud's father died, and then he had a loto dreams about it that were tramatic for him. He decided t to interpret his own dreams. When people get angry or depressed, they they there's a narrowing in the scope of attention. The stoics also think we narrow our attention down on things which might annoy us. So if you think something really bad is going to happen,. then you've got to feel anxious igt hat has got to do with the value that you invest and ternal events such as this. That's common sense but Freud didn't believe it was true.

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