Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
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The Death Instinct Is Not a Noble Savage
He has a lot of hostility towards overly repressive forms of society, like the christian a society of his time. He says we need aggression towards an out group if we're going to love people in our in group. This aggression also plays a role in eligantsi it's like the formation of our guilt, right? Like we have this aggresson towards the external world, towards other people, that we then have to society makes us repress that and so we turn it on ourselves. And he thinks that what especially religion, just asan institution, has been rid large that same thing you've internalized of civilization so that you feel guilty.
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