Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Pleasure Principle
The pleasure principle, that is fundamentally the id, that that thing that drives us all freud believed got suppressed when kids had to understand that there is reality. Reality imposes constraints upon our happiness. We t just go around sucking boobs and sticking our finger up our asss much as we'd like to. Ah, there are constraints that are externally imposed, like, you just can't do that. And then a little bit later on, what we do is we internalize all those rules, and we incorporate em into ourselves as the super goand that becomes our conscience. Soi have questions aboutso hedos hedly. He just kind of assumes it in this, but he doesn't
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