AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
The Pleasure Principle
2min Snip
00:00
Summary
Transcript
Episode notes
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
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode