Dr. Richard Boothby: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred
Psyche
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The Ego Is What Freud Said About the Unconscious
Ethan Lacon: We can take a lot from Freud, but we have to make sure that we're really doing justice to what's truly unconscious. Much more important than the ego is what Freud taught us about the unconscious, he says. Every entry into language makes some sense; sometimes it makes almost no sense,. But also leaves a margin of question about what is the person really saying to me? The symbolic is not images, but signifiers, words. And in very, very crude, but I think not use on useful terms, basically, what does the word home really mean?
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