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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
The Pleasure Principle and the Aggressive Drive
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For most of us, our happiness and our gratification is going to depend on other people and the outer world in ways that we can't control. For for froid, you know, talking about the aggress the, the aggressive drive, or the death drive, which he brings up later on, that was a late addition to his theory. And i think what he's saying is that the rules of civilization, in his specially discreet against christianity, are oppressive, like they've gone oppressive.
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